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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  milestone, we split into four sub-teams and worked on four ideas: my boot ... fun walking around on giant blocks of foam. [carousel image1 ... voted on which product we wanted to move forward with. Concert Lift was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... writing flowery little paragraphs about them and the memories I’ve made on or crossing them, then assigning them a score based on nothing but my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  classes: Math: [annotation note="Calculus 1 (5 on AP Calc AB/BC equivalent ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stuff you can't work on aside from letting it fade from the collective ... did psets on time but without understanding all the material in class ... do psets handed to you on a plate, but rather on how well you apply

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... 't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993 ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... lot of other unique things that happen on this campus during the year

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... blues painted on the Boston skyline. And sometimes it gets quiet enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... weather and put on some clothes. It's kind of mediocre outside right now; it ... semester and I want to make them special, I put on my very favorite shirt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , the "fine print" on our acceptance letter includes the following clause ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... that students should not make decisions based on what they think will get

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  describing their majors. As they munched on cookies, they told us about how ... their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... projects on which I'm working and write my dissertation, which I'll defend in ... injected brains and look at the cells that received DNA, which glow green on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh ... math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found ... 2 layers of cling wrap on top of the table 3 layers of paper towel on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... campuses turned out better than expected: I was a bit fixated on MIT by this ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014