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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’m grateful for how supportive she is; even though she criticizes a significant ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into Nisha around campus a grand total of three times in all these months here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... times, because time management is such a necessity. Sometimes I tell

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• 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

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... 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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  how I identify myself as Filipino. Sure, this is truly a label that ... like I’m watching a glitch in the matrix. The fact that my identity is ... loving writing so much that I pursue a major in it. Or pursuing something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... aside, I got a good night's sleep and felt much better in the morning (it ... course, because radio astronomy is the best. As a radio astronomer-in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... figure out what works for you. There is no shame in dropping a class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... is represented in all capital letters in English translations of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... before is how visual web development is. My programming roots were making

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

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ! Bite my nails less! This is a practical resolution, in one sense, and ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014