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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  metaphors for energy Me on my best (work-related) all-nighter ever Paul on how ... first semester, but this other HASS gives me both CI-H and distribution ... class. Trust me, you'd probably have to at least skip half your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of ... thing, it's great exercise: I bike about 8 miles each way, which gives me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of ... first judgments irrationally deter me from saying Hello. 8) MIT campus ... umbrella part is just me though.) 10) The heating in my dorm is amazing. Now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  .) Let me know if you have any questions about 6.131 or lab classes in general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving me a refresher course on building a lamp ballast :) Totem board, Noah

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... that's okay with me. If you come to MIT, you don't have to have days like ... important to me than partying all the time in college; some people here don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  many [annotation note="not me though, I am not sage"]sage upperclassmen ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... . I think it’s worked out for me; some of my favorite moments of MIT so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  -basa pa sa ulan; you left me alone, in the middle of darkness, drenched in ... me alone)[/caption] Daluyong. Daluyong is one of the more obscure ... . It terrifies me to imagine water rising, slowly building up, up my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  am so thankful for all the opportunities MIT has given me. However, as ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in ... people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  sharing life with me this year and I’ll see you around. <3, Elizabeth

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times ... of me. It’s a risky technique, so I won’t advise it here, but if it ... concepts of causality and confounders, has closed me off to ideas that are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  because other people say you should. Feel free to ask me any questions you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  experiences about the Hunt, and I hope this'll help me understand these feelings ... ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for inspiring me to write this post in the first ... mezzacotta in 2007, Puzzle Hunt CMU [annotation note="Chris tells me that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Teresa and me is coming So Soon. I brought my old canon powershot with me ... I’m really grateful to Infinite for enabling me to meet so many other ... simultaneously took years off my lifespan and instilled in me even more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a ... regional preferences"]mooncake,[/annotation] which made me very happy. i took

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance ... three floors above me sings a song she wrote for Matthew and for Christina

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... absolutely worth the time. It took me until 5:37 AM to finish 18.02, much

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  their names, if they want to tell me why they left (with the reassurance ... , medical, voluntary. Then, someone turns the question on me. “Well, I ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014