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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... engineers everywhere that the cameras on my 2014 smartphone and my 7th grade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... Rico) to work on a project that would improve the quality of life in his

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  the keys don’t fall all the way to the bottom, nor jangle around on my ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... honest. And (to bring us to the meat of this post) when I leave my house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• 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 ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

   Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1 ... ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I consume. Another relatively recent addition to the Central Square ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... Daily Table, $1.99, thanks to a direct partnership with the company. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  ignition of the fuel vapors."]on fire,[/annotation] leading to a shortage of ... and to quickly dump their knowledge on how the club/performances should ... experiments to run, more ideas to try out on the off chance that it’ll make my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  't belabor the point, as my position on the matter is well established. Suffice it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... the opportunity, but rather to fully capitalize on it. As much as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... string represents one student's major, and represents the answers to six prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  journalist.  Second, you don’t talk to your friends from Minnesota anymore ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... , too. You’re not as scary as you think, cutie. I read this post on the

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  to some other large open clearing, but he did. He turned the drone on ... luckily observant (and intrepid) enough to find the drone on his own, lying fortuitously visible just to the side of one of the only trails on the island. My

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  just go to the MIT home page, click on academics, and then read through ... only got a 760 on the SAT I math and I don't have time to retake it 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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  freshman year? Mollie on freshman advising Chris's guide to the GIR's: 'don ... long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  humankind, working with others to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... in nostalgia, to bask in the carefree memories, to avoid facing the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... /technology consultant to many films, including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Æon ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008