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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the ...  MPhil in engineering (as well as an MASt in applied mathematics) at Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... , and beautiful all at the same time. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... intended to do Computer Engineering at Purdue, and was involved in ML ... of my first year at Wellesley, COVID, and feeling just a little out of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  said 'when you look at dirt, realize that it's not really dirt.'" That ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  , experiences, ideas, and people. I found overwhelming amounts of those things at ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp. For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... our COVID test, etc. etc.. But I wasn't nervous at all. I knew how ... like. At least during the first semester. The Office of the First Year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in ... staples, and prepared culturally-resonant foods at prices that are ... milk that Daily Table bought wholesale and sold at lower margins than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... worked. I was reasonably good at everything I did, and great at a few particular ones, at least within my state. I could [annotation note="To be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  taught at much greater depth and breadth. We learnt about the ... classes I took at MIT during my freshman and sophomore year, which mainly ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... research experience - or any at all - under your belt. Professors definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about ... about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon ... student at MIT had the script in their inbox. The e-mail thread that ... , at this rate we'll be #1 in about 6 hours

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... making this up."]crick in your neck[/annotation] from looking at an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018