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• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... learning new things and meeting new people. but the word ambition in its most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note="the ... the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last ... trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  semester without dropping the class, that is… Classes 6.036 - Intro to ... like the way the class is structured - essentially, I go to lecture Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... dealer: In the movie, Ben's major is "pre-med." Of course, there's no pre ... have enough real ones to make up for it. The Bay Area is pretty conducive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , freezing to them, and then being subjected to 50+ MPH winds is the landlocked ... other in history. In most of these places the power will not be restored ... still require you to submit the application by the old deadline, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad ... explain is if the character dies in a random act of violence rather than in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... months, it's harder to relax too much. Learn from software companies Most ... ).  That's why the fundamental motivation of Y Combinator is to reignite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  't realize is that if someone decides to invest something in you—in this case ... the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make ... -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... fortunate to get past the rough start and still take most of the classes I ... , these were probably one of the most helpful things for me to learn because

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Course 21W: Writing and Humanistic Studies.* *What in the world is a writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... also, half of the book is a jarring account of a girl's attempts to learn ... some reason Matthew McConaughey is there. What We Do in the Shadows

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , like 80 F, or 27 C, which is standard in Tucson for most of the year. But ... return is so lovely.   The pros of biking: exercise! I went to ... located three miles from my apartment, however, so in addition to all the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... do in the world and there are a lot of problems to solve, and we win ... , and i hope they grow in the ways they want to grow in and become the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... , well, boring. I felt the pressure to be fun, like I did back in freshman ... enough to blog about) and the kind of music I'd listen to in my room, and I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  "Tool" are seen floating in the waters. To "tool" a pset is to work on it ... " and "much cool". The bezel is also a scratch-n-sniff, with the available ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015