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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... class, so I do my psets on my own.) 2. Timur asked about water pressure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work ... . More on these things further down the blog, though, and we can start

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... face after a comedy show, tacos upon tacos after a night out on 6th ... ’s always fire, so trust me on this one."]tuna[/annotation], all [annotation

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... there are very different solutions which can’t be compared on the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... there. I feel like I passed the person I should have been on the street

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... Tech, the Russian counterpart to MIT, he went out to Moscow on weekends just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on ... hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... , winter squash, corn on the cob, beets light vegetable, V2: carrots

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... data on the self-reported underwear colors of people who have emailed the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... .2 miles, from Hopkinton on through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  poster called "hookup culture" on entering college, and not all people find ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... this for me. I did not think that whatever it was that I saw on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus ... culture once BC closed down and was fully intent on moving back with my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020