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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I ... next best thing to bringing him, and brought Roary instead. Photo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... numbers to the west of that line are odd, and the building numbers to the ... order from west to east. Finally, the Building 50s and Building 60s are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it. Exit the elevator and grumble when you see the stairwell you always take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay alive; sometimes we forget to eat, and sometimes we forget to sleep. we ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... , definitely. MIT students like to both "work hard and play hard", and there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some ... want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry ... and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... stop between rounds to pace myself. And I won! I tied with Zach D. ‘18 ... gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... , dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to ... , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into ... and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  sent me back an email saying he understood and would allow me to attend ... , remove me from my original lab section, and add me to the Friday section ... section. That's a lot of hassle for one student, and it would've been much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... known much about Elton John, except that he was old, he was gay, and that he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for ... ,[annotation note="Introduction to Machine Learning"]6.036[/annotation]and 6.031 both

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021