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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... Corridor. (Photo courtesy of Yan.) For some reason this hack struck me ... . For me, the Save Point hack was one of these. The simple phrase "You may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Boston weather)! from left to right: Karen C. '20, me, Miles J. '20 ... , helped me become friends with one of last year’s ring comm members, which I ... let me actually stop before finishing the 2nd half of the sentence, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  Paper Airplane Book (none of which, they tell me, have yet made it past ... . (Later they tell me that they had been playing spoons with giant bowling ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  said. “You never know what’s gonna happen.” He told me his story, or ... ’t. This is what he told me:   “We all took different paths, my ... , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... Camille looks like me and we share a lot of characteristics. (Yes, I am also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three ... these months, work is hard enough to make me feel like I should be able to ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... reflect on and preserve cool recent experiences—makes me realize that my ... sketches help me experiment with different narrative formats and replace the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me ... dorm or my brothers in my fraternity is that they haven’t seen me “in ... -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  won’t do me any harm.’ ‘Ah, but I’ll differentiate you with respect to y ... grey carpet. He told me that it happens all the time. Then he shared the ... . He told me about a bet he'd made with a friend in the 1970’s. Then, he

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... Troubadour" by Tom Chapin  Which brings me back to that Thursday afternoon ... tells me that I had double English in the morning, so we were probably

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  made me eat a really terrible burrito against my will (or something ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on ... doses of optimism. So I focused on what I had going for me: sincere

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best ... were they talking to me instead of the girls who were a little faster and had better form to boot? I think it was my mom who explained it to me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  . But trust me, it looks like this, and you should have it on your desk ... distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , I've realized that every semester really has taught me something important, some greater, grand life lesson that I hope to carry with me into ... that with me into college. I wasn't particularly well liked in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  . This confused young freshman me, so slightly less young senior me will ... upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week ... about unless you read the course catalog. I can't believe it took me three

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... please tell me your skincare routine).   Individual Responses ... I am her to the max. But he definitely sees a different side of me and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there ... especially. Fortunately for me, none of that stress comes from my parents. All of my stress is self-imposed, it's me telling myself to do well

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008