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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... resources, remember: you paid for it in your tuition, so might as well make ... right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... part of the reason was that I expected to stay in my room for longer. I was expecting to be able to stay in that room for at least the school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , with a few hairpin turns thrown in for good measure. It's accepting being ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... lives in my head, or spend enough time splaying my life for them, or that ... to school and for what, or where to go to work and on what. In making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  enough for this school. I had thought this in the past, almost transferring ... in all of these classes, for the most part, was intention. What choices ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

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

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

  

  he'd recommended me for a customer support job in what would become the ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for Obama to see me, so in the words of James '11, I went in "guns ... MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024