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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to ... -gravity environment. MIT expects and forces you to work and *be* at so much of a higher ... capabilities and force of will at all times, which is weird and wonderful. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same ... a snake that ate something.” At the start of my sophomore spring, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan ... : Spoilers for the rest of this post. At Mattapan, we got off of the trolley we ... inbound. I tell Alan that we’ve used up all of our bad luck at this point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... first day of class at MIT--at least for now. Far from knowing everything

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at ... thoughts about it, but at the heart of the issue, I think it’s quite simple

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. I was part of a mass-layoff at work a couple weeks ago and have ... copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... like magic, staring at this alien device, this thing of the movies. With ... house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  recharge after a couple months of work, but at the end of the day I was still ... slightly embarrassing photo at the top of this post: all of the musical ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... right after we “finished” it at the end of January, but then the rush of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  at them at different times, and lots of different methods of framing ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... of my first year at Wellesley, COVID, and feeling just a little out of ... Program at the University of Auckland halfway across the world in New

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017