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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that ... guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  bunch of countries just to do this dance" dance. Both the Tron Guy and ... need to get ALL of their signatures!" When the panel ended I ran up with ... happened to be the stage entrance to the lecture hall we needed into. We just

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... lecture (more than once (for an entire semester)) b) I decided not to do ... for this test, this class is harder than this class so I need to focus

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs ... need for academic validation that now went unfilled, in my inability to ... indicative of many things: i was still very much adjusting to the college

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass ... freshman summer? Does that count? :) 69. Get taken out to Legal Sea Foods ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  much less coherent, and it has taken me three weeks to write this blog ... becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular ... 're partners now! Let me know if you need to know people in Addis Ababa!", the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... to other prefrosh. Everyone wants to meet new people just as much as ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  moment, let the impact of the decision hit you, and do whatever you need to ... accepted/rejected, because there is so much more to you, your abilities, and ... to survive." Mackenzie '17 - "What school you go to does not define

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  difficult to implement at first glance, but believe me, once you train ... education is to learn as much as possible. 2) Make all of your figures before ... Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  doesn’t have to struggle like we did—once you’ve been through that, you ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... ’re basically told to be really scared and to try to make as much money as

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... Tuesday night, when I needed a friend the most. She introduced me to the boy ... requirement to graduate, but, you know, it is much easier to sit at home and eat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... yourself (not that I ever really need any more excuses to laugh at myself ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . I'm not quite done with it; I still need to finish the tapers on all ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• 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.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... much, kind, mysterious friend-when-I-needed-one.) Over the course of the ... , that we cannot damage the pearls! We need to show that if our linear

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  , I've kept to the daily video filming/editing/posting without too much ... sleep. UPDATE 4/16/15 Second time I've needed to bump this post to make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  needed to formulate the problem myself, to read lots of papers, and to try ... willing to make time to listen, and to support them as much as I can. Since ... unfortunate has happened to them, and they just need to be cared for a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the latter. Don't feel the need to impress each other. You're already ... building a class and a community. You don't need to apologize for what you ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013