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  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

    you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... adversity, and have a bunch of cool interests. you're social, but mostly like working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the great things about MIT is its location. You're in this hub of great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... are not particularly aesthetic or instagramable, since we've been out of ... way (we are probably a minority of people who most of the time don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ! Camp.    ——   Two days of the camp later, it was back to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  when I finished people applauded.     Of all the things I ... Sabrina's work as an excellent example of what an MIT education can make you capable of making.       May 15-19: ISEF @ LA   This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017