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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To

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

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

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up ... ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... a success, as the main issue we were trying to solve involved clean ... ’s still not a great way to “x-ray the ground” which is a silly question I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... “typical” four-year timespan. 16% works out to a little less than 1/6 of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye ... grandfather, who was very, very dear to me, emphasized to me that there is a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs ... as a computer science major.  I'll add another disclaimer here to say ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with ... didn't like. It's a similar motivation to when I made just1 a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013