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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... !   November 13th, 2014    8:30am first alarm (turned off) 8

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  clear when you're in-person, but can it happen digitally? In the ... postsolving too. For example, the 2015 Hunt has an online version that you can ... convince you that the Hunt, like all puzzlehunts, can be studied and thought

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• 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 ... teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  don't mean this in the cutesy can-sorta-sing-but-is-just-saying-this way ... for one of my early blogs: I was a freshman then, and you can totally ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is ... can't stop raving about you. And sometimes - as hard as we often try not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  hall. Nowadays, saying you live in Goodale or Hayden locates you along ... types of interaction you would see in a normal home," wrote Bob L. '78 in ... produce, but they're not giving you the full story. In truth, I'm not the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind ... ’re deferred, and you get trapped in an endless purgatory, living in torturous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  okay to keep making the same mistakes. You can't just tell yourself "Oh ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be ... Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  you can choose the best spot to seek, and vice versa for your choice in ... you even can submit if you wait longer. In the end, we decided we wanted ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in ... since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... that you can’t quite grasp without being on a film (online video?) set ... from the class? "In writing, you must kill your darlings" – a Faulkner

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  which could cut you like a knife. In spite of this—and partially because ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I ... you and around others. Fighting for the right to be yourself can help

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  no electronics experience going in (which you can probably tell from ... , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... forms that molded to our models’ bodies. You can see the full spread (and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I ... returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within ... more: $1000 in financial aid or core curriculum that you enjoy more? Or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , I'm last in every line that I join, but you know what I mean. Time ... feet away from me. The President. GAH! You can feel it, you know, when he ... you the specifics because I took notes and you can listen to it yourself

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

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

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you ... commitment. If you go to MIT you’ll experience this. If you continue in science

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012