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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  -tailed kids you once sat next to in 8.02 suddenly have suits and job interviews ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  truly be kind, to be intentionally kind and a good friend? How does one go ... audience in the dark, hiding the labor and work that goes into it to create a ... things in my free time and go to the gym everyday and cook food and, well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... once a week to talk about our progress and our deliverables. We could ... tired and didn't want to try that much and we already knew we passed 6

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

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

  

  through along the way,” and once I made a conscious effort to approach it ... —here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  grabbed some lunch and went to lab to crank out yoyos. A once in a lifetime ... Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , with the energy and creativity to improvise if - when - something doesn ... always believe in you…and take a minute to think about how much effort and energy they throw into teaching – how much effort and energy they give for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  of time to relax.  Once in second grade, I came back home in tears and ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  and metaphors I created to help explain what it feels like to me. There ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... more than enough to be overwhelming and make me double-guess whatever I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  to create and then create. Like my clubs, a community of people I share ... aspirations?(*) (200-­250 words)." And this is what I said. "I aspire to be part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... in through L (an inductor) and then chooses whether to go through the C

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits ... swim: Get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic.My classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the ... as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel ... ’d be great as Riri, and were even more encouraged when she was eager to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  wanted to take a picture and turn it into a full-on solar cell. Creating ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... vast array of advanced (and expensive) machinery used to control and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  like planning a trip would take so much time and energy. I didn’t start ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , but I want to focus my energy on one thing, and I want to build it up! I ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... to cure cancer / creating the renewable energy systems of the future ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  before it. I actually feel so close to this team. I have so much warmth and ... the experience so much better because I got to know my team and feel ... does work for me.  I also want to learn more EE and CS now! And I have 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023