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  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your ... of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... today, we had to hold mock interviews with a classroom camarade on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  up at 4 AM after I-forget-how-many hours' sleep and start on a thermo pset due in at 2 PM, this chorus tends to take on a special meaning ... in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  can prove who you are to other computers on the network, and your ... tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck ... accessing your files from any computer on the Athena network. AFS is broken up

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... 's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... how to balance my time, prioritize my health and wellbeing, study, eat ... on Friday night and still get up on Saturday morning ready for the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... West to get there. GAHHH). We all got off from work pretty late, but decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait ... about what the fall semester would look like (due to the pandemic) and how ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... specializes in projects that focus on interfaces, interactions, and ... class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... be done on this problem -- and many, many other problems to be solved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  must find Tim. 8. Learn how to walk better on ice. Simple enough... I ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... the restaurant, so I had to get even closer to my audience to retrieve

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  which list, then: focus your application on the things that matter most to ... readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our ... system is missing something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  Dear 2020 MIT Protofrosh,  Today or tomorrow, depending on your timezone, you will access a special message on decisions.mit.edu. You're ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  ’t write about what it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on ... getting to know more people -- not just my podmates, who are lovely, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  . When you get your decisions it could be that the last thing you'd ever want to do is sit still and go online (at least it was for me) but if ... neat place to chat with other applicants, express how happy you are that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  's “How to Get Enough Rest” brochures. Note that I mention this right ... /roommate/former roommates went to bed sometime around 2 AM on weekends and slept until noon ... 's Prarieville, Iowa on Sunday mornings). Manishika '12, for instance, goes to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  collaborators even if they aren’t on your team, and 3) know and trust your ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different ... note="there is also an area where your goal is to listen and see what can

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  also decided to leave out the anchovies because I was too lazy to get ... on weekends so I wouldn't have to worry about cooking when I got home ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to ... is low enough to the ground to appear to extend forever - people on the ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015