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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  blog entry because I have a ton of work to do for my employer (a company ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... heat. Below me my bed had decided to become a rock. I honestly have no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... for a while, and although we're all supposed to be doing work, this is ... haven't exercised in more than a month due to getting several illnesses in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  was looking for criticisms, as the paper is due to be published soon ... . Update blog. 11:55-12:10 -- VERY hot shower, hopefully. Due to a water main ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... UROPs. Don’t be stuck working for a lab you don’t want to work for or ... . Interviews are not just for the professor/grad student to see if you are a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... . Nevertheless, it seems to me probable that a general proof of this kind for the ... of the proof, but we will pause for a moment to formally define the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tools to make my vision a reality.  It wasn’t until this past January when ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... ’t due to lack of interaction with actual black people. I know for some ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for ... due to her tragic loss. This episode is also important for Zuko ... and not in a good way. For example, I wanted to have the matcha powder

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  mentally equipped for about 4.5 classes a semester so I've been sticking to ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  -- i.e., when to leave something behind. He thought for a minute then ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020