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  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... conferences for young entrepreneurs? Literally the night before Next Gen ... a conference for millennial entrepreneurs. It starts tomorrow and it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... , particularly when considering what is asked for on the application, in addition ... technical issues, like an unfortunately timed power or internet outage that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented ... Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... , which I believe meets for 2 hours per week only in the spring Really, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... ready for the geek-in-chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  like or be more than one thing for most traits. Anyone can, in theory ... questionnaire. Most people are in the middle of the bell curve for most “traits ... real issue with Myers-Briggs is how many people in positions of power

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... . I learned that there's a group in Arkansas, developing a glove for ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  . While in Yerevan, Armenia for my [annotation note="A program that sends ... Marla to be fixed. In just one and a half hours, and for just $64, I came ... jump and scream in joy, relieved that I wouldn’t have to settle for a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the ... , "Whoops! Sorry for the inconvenience, but we only sell things in our actual ... miles and spent a full day in the pouring rain for the sake of getting a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some ... a granola bar for lunch and shoot some hoops with the other intern in ... performance in the future. 5:30 PM- I clock out for the day. At the end of work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  note="stands for Amateur Radio Emergency Services. I still miss them a bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  rain, so we opted for the latter, got in line, got our books, got our ... .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back ... his lectures, celebrated his anniversaries, and replicated this comic in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both ... is not sticking the glass back in the furnace. &amp ... taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the ... expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .00, 6.009, and 6.031 for. And was it worth it? Definitely! In this class ... in the same group for this last project! Allan’s Classes: 4.191 Independent Study in Maya Generative Tools I really wanted to take a class this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  tools for others to use. On a day-to-day basis, we mostly code quietly.4 ... me for the abstract thinking I learned in courses like these. Bonus ... month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="easier said than done, but I've been working on it in small increments for the ... ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of ... the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  bee movie (which i got for my birthday in first grade). i liked flipping ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... said, you can never plan completely for everything in life, and all in ... caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017