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

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... the exchange coordinator buys into that argument.  Drop by the

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  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 ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  :00-7:45 -- Check all my websites again. Sit in the lounge and chat with various D ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  you in the right direction. 2. The UROP website Professors, post docs ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  there was already an admissions website back in 1996. Look at those ... turns out that you can just buy historical weather data in bulk. Here ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  remainders of sleepiness, but they fight back. Do you go in and buy something sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . Frobert ‘13 It’s your turn in Star Realms. You go to buy the Mech World, but ... turn in Star Realms. Fro buys that ship you wanted out from under you ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  undergraduates; 16 million people in the United States go to college right now ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser

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

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

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

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

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the changes they make in the real world. Unfortunately the commencement video ...  click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007