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  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling guilty I didn't work well, before giving up to write"]I lacked the ... inbox. But for some reason, I opened this little unsuspecting email

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... every weekday, and a lengthy pset each week. I’m keeping up with the ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... for a little bit. Watch me eat my words in a few months time. I love

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... , attending staff meeting, etc. It takes up about twenty hours each week. I get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  "exercise once a semester" but that's just setting myself up for ... unafraid. I want to get better at speaking up, asking for favors, and being ... Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  keeps a person warm after falling into freezing water for up to 12 hours ... for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... essay writing fun for an entire semester! Because it is a writing based

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  lab everyday for over 4 weeks straight. I’d wake up every morning ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... of liking it. It’s like dress up. Only… with… your life. And this is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... don't know if you guys remember when you first learned Calculus. For me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  out what works best for you as you go. Sometimes you end up dropping a ... entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... designated time for you to explore MIT to its fullest, to test the boundaries

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... FOR THAT MATTER) ALONE! (Except for Justice Clarence Thomas who claims

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... elective credits for that exam? Information about that can't be found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... slow. Then, I was a sophomore, and that eventually took up 50% of my ... this.) Now, of course, there are milestones that break up your life into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ’ve worked for this since I was 19. Every up and down, every choice, every loss ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... pop-up book portfolio that talked about all of my high school science ... I ended up having a wonderful undergrad experience continuing my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  don't know”, what if I end up really liking the material for the third ... /art-development/writing job. And we are going to work our way up to computer graphics for the ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... areas in Athens   people added for size comparison     in case you were hungry for more columns       that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you ... .189 takes up the entire month. You could also just start coding things for fun ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015