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  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  like: what's the nicest way to get the names of the winning team? My ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  the course is to get away from fully actuated systems, where every ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... only clean water source that remains is the one next to the secondary ... career to become the president of what Drop of Water is now, a fully

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows ... , but the nearly unanimous excitement around campus leads me to dismiss

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... some food before my Uber to the airport got to campus. So after a quick

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on-the ... perforated paper is inserted into to the pianola while a person pushes the foot ... it into a cart, push it the 1.1 miles to tEp, and then get it out of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  your boat too close to the wind. but that was the principle. "i'll show you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... like "The best sorority is..." or "You have to take this.." or "Actually the best dorm is..." when in reality there really is no best or worst

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  get to all the schools we'd like to. But one thing is clear from talking ... MIT. By the way, graduates of MIT's Architecture department designed ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... as to be effectively indistinguishable. There is no easy way into MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  summer camp is your ticket to meet the fellow high schoolers whose words ... to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... remember saying to a friend. i don’t think this was the best way to express

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... love" is never the only consideration, as much as your teachers and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  are an MIT student, you check your email compulsively. It's the only way ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... snow? *(which is weird because I helped screw the supports together to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011