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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in ... and get chopped in half. Don’t let this happen to you. Finally, back up ... than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... if I could get something to work in the 4ish days before the deadline ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... time to get work done and oftentimes I found myself just wandering around ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... that the school can see why someone like you would be great to have on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  exciting. It's also just a great way to learn how to work on a large team and ... had. It was great to see someone who looked like me in his position ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... . Whether you get in or not, after decisions, listen to this song (or another ... Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update ... one to get in. There were two EA admits, and I don’t remember any EA ... MIT, and if you are able to get in from crafting “the perfect

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  , age-appropriate services to rape survivors and/or their families from ... a great cause! Our room! And my roommate! The hallway to our ... spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  whistling and walking along. You are going to do great things in the world ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007