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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  day (except for the plane crash). Unfortunately, there is no way we can ... Boulevard, is the place I first saw the joke, "if a seagull flies over the sea ... Stuyvesant's new building. Larry, who is a practicing architect in the city

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  student. Sorry. There is a way to be qualified to come here, and that's by ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 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…

  

  or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other ... 't have the privilege to grow up with. There's a notion of "passion" that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  cognitive science. Brain and cognitive science is a great major if you want to ... .” It all sounds so funny because MIT is one of those places where a lot ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  give yourself a better life, what is the point if you’re not healthy and ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you get involved? CUP is just one way that MIT students can be involved ... -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  Sun"![/caption] MIT Spinning Arts is a performing arts group that spins ... be run. There’s a decent amount of logistical work that has to be done ... that questionable choices [annotation note="no idea if this is a common

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... post a demarcation of a starting point. Let’s see where we are in a year. ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don ... , you also have to find an adviser to whom you can relinquish control of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what ... [annotation note="Notice a theme? Tomorrow is the last day anything can be due, which ... semester, hold elections, have a party, you know, all that crucial stuff. I

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in the face. With a steel chair. Then there was the long, long flight ... I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... names of places are all commonplace here. There’s a strong sense of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... that you know you missed. and there are lots of thoughts. they come in a ... 's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  always looked so ahead of you is not that they were smarter, but because ... and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  fascinating tour through a world I’ve always dreamed of exploring. It can be ... since there is no chance that knowing the time complexity of the Bellman-Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015