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

  

  when they talked about being hosed. On Monday we had a physics midterm ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... be on the other.  I was thinking as I walked back from lab about how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... my model. I will indeed be taking zero units at MIT next term, since I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... of them until last fall, when I decided that I'd probably rather be ... --thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and chemical kinetics--are the heart and

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... overinflated jargon would be complete without this classic, all-purpose noun that ... be overused but it hasn't lost its awesomely obnoxious flavor. Ex

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . One original recipe I mangled to come up with mine. It would probably be ... cloves in the pan if you like those. Onion can be added in the form of ... transfer it to a different container while straining out the matter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through ... ’t you transfer out?” Eric asked. “Why would I do that?” We stopped on top

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  players were told would be useful for EG, but couldn't be transferred and ... complicates this strategy, since they can't be transferred to other players, and ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  make sense that I should be there. That often doesn't happen, as you will ... draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... inspirational quotes, including “All anyone wants to be labeled is smart!" Yes

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... going to do, you waited until the last minute and don't want to be ... Abroad Worksheet which requires getting transfer credit approval from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  that rectangle to a desired height, which can be adjusted with a slider ... of easily editable cubes[/caption] The same idea can be applied to ... exactness of it. Especially in young adulthood, when, let's be honest, you don

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  hardest classes possible and be in five different extracurriculars and make ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about ... the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as ... be so conflicted about my own decisions, too. (In some ways, this post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  made up. My parsing might be imperfect, especially if anyone made a ... code up a sorting hat. It won’t be an exact sorting hat—the fact that you ... be practical, But don’t judge on what you see. I’ll eat your clothes if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  transferring from MIT. I was really unsure if I could handle being a computer ... will be pretty long! It'll be an explanation of the class, my experiences ... it was going to be fun. Originally, I was pretty hesitant, seeing as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... options were both very good, but very different. He would be working with ... possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  was determined to not be embedded into this blog post, but you can ... make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure—and that’s made ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... young minds were being brought under the single ideological roof of MIT ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified ... opened, I rushed out, hoping that Davie would still be around - he was, and ... about it, or just be silent. Either is fine. Me: *silent* *ten minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011