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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh*t ... v e r a n t w o r t u n g.   Simply put, I needed to realise ... first I wasn't quite sure what to do with my newfound Free Time, a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... it), this isn't a problem I can outwork. The only thing that will fix ... small ones. I couldn't contemplate writing a thesis, but I could write a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , hence why the next big change didn‘t occur until more than a decade later ... dedicated physical space. I'm thankful that there's a lounge carved out on ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  Barton Rodgers wasn't just a physics professor. He was the physics ... . I'm sorry. Have a picture of Ice Bear for consolation. « 1880 ... numbers don't have a number describing which department it's in. This may be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Can’t Ride.) A single-file line when riding. After 10 rides The Scraper ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden

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

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  pressure, in front of a large audience – a recipe for success! I'm planning ... since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... she'll be right down to class. (I think perhaps she thinks I'm a little ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

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

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren't ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , was a captcha system. We're kinda stuck now. Our scripts don't ... 'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... full. you get treated like you know a baseline that you don't and you ... is a lot more expensive. That's why so many people don't get an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  frugal reward of a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and a free T ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want ... wouldn't result in a scar, you're just scratching at the surface of the ... elbows. But if it's a close, good friend, and it won't make things worse to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  being a resource for students, current and incoming, and I'm so excited to ... hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021