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

  

  picture): The most recommended place to cry on campus was the Cheney Room ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  be playing anyway. I think the extent to which this is true depends on ... said. “With puzzles, I feel like it's often 'Well, on to the next one ... the team holds a conversation with an AI by voting on what to say next

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  out through its original, leaded-glass windows into Second Court: on the ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice." Here's the ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective? ... on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to have to face every second of every day until the day comes that ... to miss work that day to finish the assignment on time. Again, the ... yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  "keep the lights on," which means to keep something going, even if it ... will eventually leave the lights for someone else to keep on. Leave it ... Geeks Created the Digital Revolution". It's rated 4.6 on Amazon, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’ve been working on over the semester. But while the presentations are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  is easy to go on autopilot and just follow where the currents lead you ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  Twizzlers, Game of Thrones, etc.) But back to the point - when I look back on ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she ... thing that you hold on to the most, the thing that's the most comfortable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  [/annotation] instead -- food on the road, the lifestyle at this place was strange to me ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... .5 gelatos per day. I went to the Vatican on Sunday, not thinking because I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... second. and we, the bloggers, will be here with you, talking with you, and ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  all the difference. The second is President Reif’s charge to the ... graduating in December, I used the past semester [spring 2013] to work on a ... TM without the structure of college to rely on is an intimidating prospect and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... occasional art festivals. On the other, just beyond the Harvard Bridge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015