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  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... , then what am I working out for? For literally my entire life, my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from ... asked for a later flight. But it was too late, ah well. I was thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... and meanings for things they are called “hacks” here. People who pull ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  luxury I'm very grateful for, because while your college major doesn ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... schedule, I yearned for academic diversity once again and readjusted my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni Memorial Housing for long.) You'll find that my dorm's been making head

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  topic was Dijkstra’s algorithm for finding shortest paths, my second topic was (the inifinite-ish quantity of) proofs for the infinity of primes ... stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  this medium has the power for real social impact, through identity ... 's, because lecture for both classes was not helpful (because of a combination ... usually going through the material too quickly, at least for us). For 6

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... can’t remember what it stands for anymore, but still you whisper it. IHTFP. excalculus ‘15: You ask your bio major friend for some help

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... . For once, I didn’t want weird. The cold wind bit through my sweater, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Victoria Secret was having for their collegiate Pink! line. They had a list of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008