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  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  days. Anomalies take precedence over whatever steady-state work is at the ... some pretty desperate courses of action, such as “What is the minimum ... since there is no chance that knowing the time complexity of the Bellman

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... ever diminishing - not even one bit. This place is still just like the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the ... people competing to see who stayed up the longest (though whoever wins is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say ... . It is the second-oldest dormitory after Senior House, which opened in ... dorms. Wait, why is East Campus far away from the other dorms? It's not

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , it is a reinforcement of the way they see themselves. Certainly major choice and identity are intertwined, but it is perhaps the integral process ... the Media Lab (E15), where the board is on display.

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... forth. The committee is entirely frosh, and we're excited! Some of us ... to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend ... favorite part of CP✱, so far, though, is the CP✱ Discord. one quarter of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... ’s the whole “Anxiety is actually a good thing because it helped your ... 'm struggling with. Notably, the fear of the future is all too familiar. The fear

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... MIT apart from other institutions is the incredibly stimulating ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... discussion points CPW is dead, long live CPW Before CPW was CPW The first ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  challenge now, however, is how to condense all the things you want to convey ... ; The word limit is kinda short. Now, a disclaimer: I want to stay that this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  your convenience :). Kano: Boston is an active city, and the gyms ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... MIT dorm gyms GOOD: The BC gym is new and clean (post-remodel!), with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  -anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... /bioengineering grad programs. 1. The most important thing is to figure out why you want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... middle of the night?     Afeefah: My memory in general is ... what the ethical and right thing to do is.  What is one of the hardest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  them, but that's not the point. Well, actually, it kind of is the point. Whatever. Okay - this is the part where we get into the cheesy, reflective ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... a blog post last spring. Essentially, Imposter's Syndrome is the ... is underway -- but is still at the beginning stages

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the ... 8.012 is really hard hell survival guides Jess on getting through the ... for. The beautiful thing about this is that, since the meeting is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011