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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  me would never change. It is impossible to write a blog detailing why ... innovate. It is not sufficient to just have book knowledge; MIT wants you to ... prepared to hear it now, because it is not going to change. During your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  spontaneously, even if it is only to keep people on their toes and to prove to ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ’s face it - you aren’t going to. So, to distract from the impending

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the problem is not necessarily that you need to work "harder". Organic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam ... . It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble, dedicated to Downtown Boston. Boston Common Located conveniently by the Park

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  eats it is sad"]my claim.[/annotation] Try convincing me otherwise, I ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other internationals echoed my sentiment; I tried to believe that it was part of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I ... than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... reminded that it was time to eat. Various other tEp events, like our weekly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It’s ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  ahead of time because it helps me save cognitive energy downstream that is ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really mean to say is that it's probably possible to do every p-set here at ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class, and not fairness. Think about it. When is the last time you heard an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment and carried it up two flights of stairs to my closet. It had waited six ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . So there has to be something more to it. And I think a good reason is a ... , and talk, and catch up. It's not as if this is something unique to ... universal as liking baseball, sure, but it sure is convenient that a lot of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... , at MIT, telling you that it's okay to feel a little dejected about

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  "). Today, my plan is to just grab the food and put it in the fridge to eat ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022