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  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I ... flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual ... , and I'm hoping that I'll be able to build off of that. (Speaking of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about that helped me navigate this ocean. I intended this post to be ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... in that regard too. Most lab-based classes also require me to be in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became ... ’t have to be huge and intense and difficult. I moved dormitories this year

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by red Gatorade and chick flicks chased down by Star Wars. (Yesterday was ... right now. Again." (By the way? That assignment I got the extension for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... was acquired by America Online, and Kahle's next company, a search and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  , economics, and just about everything else related to poverty. I'd be a ... noticed a box of books in one of the hallways. To be precise, the box of ... , there's a department-store-sized Goodwill on the way to MATCH that sells

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single ... running the job search, asked all of the applicants for the role to make a ... than I could have ever dreamed. In truth, I never planned to be at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my choice to pick (4) over (3). And that's why this semester's going to be different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  if I ever tried to touch anything more than an off/on switch I would be ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my ... . To Perlman, mathematics offered the best way to cut through the mumbo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... letter-grading system), will be a little more interesting, but the way that ... to say I'm not as tight-knit with my neighbors as I should be, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course ... , to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other majors

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  be weak to lure Anakin to the dark side, but really, couldn't he have ... involved something about Obi-Wan searching for a "Kiber crystal" to amplify ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a college student’s perspective, I really, really miss being able to ... awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... being able to recall and go through the motions of a recipe doesn

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  Thursday also happened to be the night of a Random Hall study break, hosted ... 's study break should be Canada. Come to Foo at 22:47 and donate your ... of a physics exam. There'll be enough food to feed the Internet for a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm ... that my body is really not designed to carry a 20 lb bag of charcoal. By ... much, volume-wise. By the time four of us had gone out to the truck and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  there?” According to Google, 15 minutes by foot. “There’s no way we can ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... way to tour a startup, and the lunch boxes scribbled with calculations

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which ... be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to ... week I had), so I paid way too much for some tickets and decided to go

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to be clogging our in-boxes. We located said wifi connection in the ... 's Steakhouse. This had been recommended to me by my uncle, who'd told me earlier ... of our office. To sum it up, admissions should be a process, not a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... ="Dylan, thankfully, does speak Mandarin, but I think I’m going to live by my pinyin and ... ; on my way home, I pass by at least three bakeries — all selling pre

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022