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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line ... ’s nice to have. In any case, it takes half an hour to get from Riverside to ... ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... three lessons in my experience, equally applicable both to swimming and to life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... hole in the space-time continuum just to see how you fared this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms. Despite that, I’d recommend anyone interested in the liberal arts to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015