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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... about how, in my sophomore year after breaking the Rule, I was hyper ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying ... indeterminate structures and projection! I really don't like this stuff, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  myself I have other skills I can bring, and I’m at college to learn.   In ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... want—how convenient! I’ve found myself seduced by this easy illusion. I ... giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  believe in hope I believe I can touch the sky if I try. With you beside me ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... 's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering ... week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... in the Media Lab (by attempted, I mean I got there and couldn’t find it

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very ... to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... next year I can feel proud of what I have accomplished in 2016. Happy ... blinding goal, a safety net for things that I wasn’t satisfied with in high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of literature and learn how I can meld my interests to do something that will make ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

    ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go.” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe ... ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... paleness. People carry themselves more loosely now. Sometimes I can't find a ... in-person or remote. I knew that I could stay at WILG if I interned in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from ... head down for about 24 hours of total domination. In the past, when I ... , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... in mechanical engineering -- actually I got two degrees. I had so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can ... , how did we even), I took a class from The Most Excellent Professor

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015