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  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  I'm up, you're drunk I wish I had no work today I wish I had no work ... comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... contemporary art to hang up in their room for a year. Acapella groups roam the ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... our switchboard for real guitar strings wired up to a certain voltage

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I was seriously misguided - for me to sprint back up to the fifth ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home ... famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... any Chinese cultural affiliations, which is also true for all other

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up and prepared for my big driving day down to San ... Harbor and ran up to around LAX and back for about a 10 mile loop, after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  somehow, i ended up being a teaching assistant for a 3 month biology class ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... . every semester, for teacher-parent conferences i guess, teachers would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  changing majors, so anyone desperate for help or advice can hit me up at ... requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to ... search for classes by number, and filter by different categories, which

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... Friday nights, so Saturdays are my ‘off’ days; I get up around 9, waste a ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  east campus, pick up some medicine from mit medical, and get tested for ... daily basis. my mom yells at me for messing up my serves, and blames my ... nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  of people that show up to our events. For popular events (popular ... of SaveTFP!   This semester, I helped organize crepes night! For ... and enjoy some delicious chow. 2) Getting decked out for dinner. And

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  to pay up to $50 for the processing of this request. Please inform me ... plans afoot for CourseRoad coming up, because I want it to keep running ... You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  humble opinion. I've spent the past week solving puzzles for Mystery Hunt, playing with cell culture for my UROP, and building stuff at my fraternity ... for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  kids who hadn't been putting up with me for 4 weeks already! ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... falling asleep in your arms, his little belly moving up and down as he

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... , we all received certificates and gifts (frisbees! and bags!) for our work, and we listened as the students stood up to receive their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  looked up at my mom, who was still reaching for some higher-up fruit, her ... the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  mentor, through bloodshot eyes, after he showed up five hours late for work ... up a change of major form for my phoenix-like rebirth as a chemical ... "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  Hello from Barcelona! I'm here for an astronomy conference. (You may ... Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me ... to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014