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  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... learn how to also beep boop. Regardless, I suffered through 6.145, with a ... .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... ." Chris S: "My finals and I can write a bad romance." Hamsika: "Finals ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how ... I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but neither can google, so it's ok. Curtis: Though I actually have a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  : Notice how I stare at Zach in awe as he scarfs down dog number 7. I am just ... 'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... and happily use it every day. Coming into MIT I had no idea how students used their address. I used Gmail so I'd just go to Gmail.com and log in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  because I feel like I am Good at math, but because I can feel small ways in ... understand just how brutal mathematics can be. As if, I was lying to myself by ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always ... How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... 'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... . "Wow, I can't even imagine what that's like," I said.   I realized ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that ... I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... culture really small pieces of liver tissue in a scaffold that can be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  how nice ink can be. Now that I've proudly proclaimed one of the ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... you have a smartphone? Understand that I didn't have a smartphone in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... . they exist, definitely, but not in a way that i can say. nine. of course ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021