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  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters ... ' unix names, although I'm not sure if this is going to fly with upper

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... to the awesomeness). I was thrilled, and everybody in my lab is totally ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  , surprisingly enough. One regret I have is not planning my classes properly before ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  .) 9:53 AM: Back to pset. mCPBA is the most commonly used peroxyacid to ... . Discussing why helium is not found at high abundance in atmosphere decidedly ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is ... .”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here is cold, yes, but beautiful. Besides the lower temperatures, everything

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  to graduation I was glad, but not super-excited. The big day came ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Credit: Tiffany Tseng Roary is the stuffed tiger that my boyfriend gave me

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  over two months. It is unfortunately not helpful because for the first ... trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... that's not the case. You tend to only notice the large groups, but the ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world ... collaborative pset party late into the night. No strategy is objectively better ... you might not feel positive all the time, try to make someone else

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  MIT at that point, so I felt sufficiently validated and did not see the ... is represented in all capital letters in English translations of the Bible. This is why some Bible verses are like And then the LORD said to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  conference. Unlike the weather, I was not beaming. I felt heavy. Two days ... , something that’s not “legit,” at the conference. I felt ashamed of myself. I ... whom were among my closest friends, not all of whom showed it on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  this is absolutely not true—the food here is bad but not everyone who ... note="Declaration of conflicting interests: The author is not affiliated ... bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... , and they also recruit high school students. The recruiting process is ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... !!! this is one of the most awesome perks about our student ID - I've been ... dozen of them around the world, the New England Aquarium is actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was ... well over twenty years. The station's listener base is pretty large ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy ... it has [annotation note='the gastrodiplomacy of Thailand is quite

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but ... the IMO is selected. And yes, I made the top twenty. I was in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019