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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... 's see if we can involve stairs in this bad idea somehow. 15:17 - 16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red ... power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don ... . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  'm pretty sure I can distinctly hear Max in that cacophony of noise ... positions in SolidWorks.  Then, using Keynote's Magic Move feature, I ... designing and fabricating our product, and I'm not about to present it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  burning out. I tried to keep that advice in mind. Leading up to Splash, one ... . After the meeting, I hang out in the Bush Room doing last ... questions, so I didn’t do much in the actual class. It turns out that the main

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... ’t see in the city. When I step out of the car outside our house, I ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  out of touch for periods. I think the main shift in mindset that has ... 't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... years. I'm sitting at home in the same room I found out that I was deferred in and the same room that I found out I was accepted to MIT in. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back ... to figure out what to throw overboard next. What can go? What can go ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  should have been less freaked out, because I am fortunate in that after ... semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... to figure out how to use it. In this project, I knew I wanted to focus ... everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... when they find out I was a national finalist, I can feel their respect ... being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019