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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  you start letting sweat bead upon your brow and frantically asking ... electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  was a Democrat (news to my parents!), and Adam's mom left our engraved ... 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  Alice Dragoon, senior editor of MIT News, who was and continues to be ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... surprising number of late nights and amount of last-minute tooling this term ... .614 (Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures), and I knew from the previous

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience ... fascination, fascination because it was such good writing and MIT seemed like ... ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  more fun than Y, but Y sounds easier and I want to get an A. Good news ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and ... Book Expo America (BEA) and we were both attendants. My dad’s steadfast

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  —literally nothing productive—over the past three-and-a-half days. news comes, and you ... like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated

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

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

  

  ’ve already had my interview and photoshoot for this MIT News article. I spent ... I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, two years of workshops, trainings, and meetings with an

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... , and I was so excited to see what it would’ve been liked. I would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome, white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind ... hours and many questions later, I had reached my last slide and was asked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

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

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

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news, and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021