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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in different states, even if the appointments were virtual. my ... degrees to go the other direction, was called tacking. there were nuances to ... extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  picking out her sweet joint degree Melis on -- oh wait she basically already ... long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... , right? I and many others have discovered and re-discovered over the long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... ’s nothing particularly bad about these tests as long as we’re not using them ... problematic fake science Myers-Briggs test (read more about that here). Big 5

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... this project was to try and see how long the water source would last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through ... ) Creating, revising, or removing undergraduate subjects and degree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry (2) 5.12: Organic Chemistry I (2) 6 ... so long.        Professor/Teaching/Teaching Staff (114) Content ... Solid State Chemistry (2) a really fun spin on chemistry (I'm generally

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  !” the voice had whispered. A long, low whistle followed it. It appeared to ... . Unfortunately, I have a long recurring trend of starting stories and never ... ="That summer, I went to a week-long leadership program at Harvard, where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  relevant. This week was Paul Levitz, best known for his long career with DC ... University theater 8:05pm watch The Saint Plays   We went to these ... life (at university, 19-20 years old, thinks way too deeply about the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  have roughly the same format: teachers come and teach roughly hour-long ... they happen, who the students are, how large it is, and how long it is ... . Spring HSSP is a long-term program, open to middle schoolers and high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  discussion points CPW is dead, long live CPW Before CPW was CPW The first ... universities. So admitted student events were already things then, although they ... decisions that year. The article states that "women and minority students may

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ’s been really helpful but I have a long way to go.  What is something that ... ” and out of state school I applied to. During the college app cycle a ... and help keep it in check. What is your go-to pick me up after a long

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .091[annotation note="Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry"][/annotation] and 8 ... long longer for me to finally find “my people,” but in the end, without ... state to generate ideas by forcing yourself to work at certain times

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  vision when it was so long ago and all the real, daily struggle has been ... it’s worth it, even when it feels unnatural. There is a value to faking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... Part way through the ceremony, some people broke out half a dozen beach

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... the University of Washington, then become a software engineer. So, why ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... level, it was burnout. Working 2 shifts leaves you in a numbing state

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home ... would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... obsession. These two books are semi-canon in-universe novellas that expand on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018