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  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped, then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• 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…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some ... them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... vague impressions of being horribly, horribly sad. For this blog post, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... fast”). Back at EC the rollercoaster, whirring power tools, and punks in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  speeches word for word and designs are on our beautiful website (made ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for, and if they have any advice for prospective students. Here are their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... fast paced nature of computer science research. Conference peer review

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2022, which are unmarked. This post has spoilers for some puzzles ... . Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ? Overview Acknowledgments Searching for legitimacy Hunt history ... Fading together Never seen again Forgetting Recorded live For permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  another, except for maybe Course 8. Fuck physics. Recently, I've been reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019