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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery ... ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  force myself to stick to my budget. I have hateful vivid memories of ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  'll force you to think through the questions yourself first 3) Always start on ... form of written record of what needs to be done when. google calendar ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  use to force myself to learn. I hope it is anyway. # I’m used to ... .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  -gravity environment. MIT expects and forces you to work and *be* at so much of a higher ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context. First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... ata gustong manalo Wala na ’to Pareho lang tayong malabo i’ve been ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  / Puzzle Club website. One driving force was the motivation of wanting to ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’s difficult to force yourself out of bed, and there are some nights when you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  over to their website and vote for us! We can do it! ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  critiques the video at certain points, forcing it to repeatedly pivot to ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  outside of that (of course, she still forces me to be a bit more well ... without Googling! :D ) After that, I managed to convince Alex W. and Emi to ... running, and came to our senses; even if the mystical forces we had tapped

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  for CPW last year) is a photographer for The Tech and was forced to hang ... when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011