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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 ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  , but the nearly unanimous excitement around campus leads me to dismiss ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... the Friday lab. This meant he personally had to open the class archives

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... really, really know yourself, to the point that if you keep reading over

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• 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 ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

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

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  like that every week. Maybe it’d make more sense to plot it on the ... . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  from Signal Number 1 to Signal Number 5, which are based on the maximum ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  time to just stay in my room with the doors closed, put on some good ... -mo. Moments like sitting on a boat next to a friend and staring out into the ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... woke up at 8:30, got out of class around 3, ate lunch on the way to chem

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

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... conversation and then go back to talking about Jersey Shore in the same minute. I ... explained what "fit" meant to her. She told us that we should look around the

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

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  People(TM) took the time to slow down, stop, sometimes even turn around on ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  remedy is to slowly chew on carbs, typically rice (because it absorbs the ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... ,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... have better code, because it annoyed me to work on the old one. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the ... she ever decided to turn her powers against humanity, the world would ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011