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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  , and cookies-up-for-grabs that turn into tea parties... I love checking ... about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  came. Some would call me foolish for getting this wrapped up in the job ... up the mail (for real), so it's on the way. I'll be thinking about all ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... display it on the LCD. After asking for some help from Jay, I ended up ... , implement, and create a presentation for our final project. I teamed up with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  jammed up today, and it would be hard for us to meet up. Can we meet Friday ... 's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... books with me. When I went back around 8:00 PM to pick them up, they were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... myself repeating the same story I tell everyone. I'm only child. I grew up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... . Any of the options available to you will open up vast possibilities for ... ”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ="aligncenter" width="1535"] graphic details have been replaced with flowers for viewer

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym ... ="712"] idk why this became 30 minutes i could've sworn i signed up for an ... started ended, seemingly for no reason. Messages popped up when we tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  Gamemasters~ for the fun of it. We then set up our first form game, [annotation ... , claimed that he could’ve coded up a webapp for all this in 45 minutes — but ... the real game for the following weekend, but due to conflicts, ended up

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  fruit. You walk up to another table, and there are two options for meals ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020