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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  for their work on nanophotonics, and there was never any question of ... merrily on 9.12 (Neurobiology Lab) to 9.15 (Biochemistry and Pharmacology of ... what color sweatpants I finally decided on. (We're back to grey as of now.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven ... unhappiness and burnout. On college admissions specifically: of course it's easy ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

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

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

  

  won’t feel the pain Nine. We were informed of our new rooms on Thursday ... , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... looks like. The stuffed animals on top of the cabinet all have names. The

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... Grand Canyon. I made connections on my new floor that took me to Haiti ... Twizzlers, Game of Thrones, etc.) But back to the point - when I look back on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique ... new information, but that you've relied on those tools so much you never ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... today. And that’s the end of it. I’ll see you all on the other side of ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... 't have your people. Sometimes, you’ll find your best living group on only one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... can support her. If it means sitting on the sidewalk of downtown LA at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  based on its known coordinates. It wasn't much of a program, but while ... . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... more often it's a merry-go-round. I spent a lot of time on photography in ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -oh-one-a/b" written in place of numbers. I got a 50% on that one. This past week I had ... students fear failure to some capacity. I'm scared of trying new things because I'm afraid of being bad at it. Which yeah, sounds dumb on paper but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of ... the tiger on my head (since it had a high center of mass) but all went ... Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  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 ... of lecturing on a pre-set topic, he's answering our questions. This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  of the pandemic, Spark was in a new format this year: usually it ... finished class #2 I realized that I had stained an entire block of wood on ... free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... the thing you've been working on for so long. and that was true of my ... , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018