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  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... , there was not much time to rest on the flight. I got right to work studying for the 6.006 exam. I arranged to take it on Monday, but I knew I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  paying attention to the fact that I was getting all the answers wrong on ... got on this test was not quite as upsetting as me to the staple that I ... percent on a test at MIT, rest assured that you guys will be the first to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... you are going to be the "driver" or the "passenger." 9. Make a graceful ... cards and follow up. After the seminar, we went to a "Mock"tail Party

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger ... .[/annotation]Then, I moved to Boston, making me pretty unavailable to help the younger ... MIT, freshmen get to do things! Freshmen get to be the president of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  day, so i head on over to the green building and head up [annotation ... idea to simply build the Green Building on 'stilts' so that the first ... seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale, with myself as the tare, to carefully measure out my luggage and make ... as JKim, but this is because by the time you have gone to MIT for three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  several of us gathered on Kresge to film a video of it over the weekend ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  versions of the sign on top of the pictures to see what people thought ... materials, to hanging the signs to LED options, to maker spaces to work on it ... cardboard to measure the cable cover length the second time without breaking

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  really want to take the time to reflect on everything I've learned ... and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  thoughts of grief. It was hard to not feel bittersweet about reaching the ... to be told. And that scared me. Now the semester is ending, *I look up at the clock* and I still don't know how to describe how I feel. But oh

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday ... , brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog ... subtitled "The MIT Whiz Kid WHo Brough the Casinos to Their Knees." The whiz

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  stand on the terrace to take it all in playing with sparklers in ... taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  I was walking to my room for only the second time ever and somehow ... on his head. I remember the first time I went to Pour House, not on a ... breakfasts--every year, it's tradition that the seniors on Conner 2 make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  reached. The staircases and ladders took us up to beautiful views. Of ... feel with the fact that we're almost right on the equator. Fortunately ... comforter. There's a beautiful woven tapestry on the wall, depicting two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... essentially look through the listings and decide on three to apply to. If you ... 're working on. At these presentations, you get the chance to hear directly from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... relate the experiments to the timeline on the back end. The work continued ... weeks, awakening to a wrong number call on my cell phone, realizing the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  to for help or direction is more than a little terrifying. And, on the ... Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... Memorial Drive on the trip back from the UA Meeting. The weather, for the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... and a few grapes (to be linguistically fair, you know?), sailed on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , I decided to write this one based on the song "MTA", where a man named Charlie gets stuck on the MTA (now MBTA) because he can't afford to pay the ... . On the other hand, I had been working on the second story for a while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020