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  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  candidates are considered. These are not hypothetical places. I have worked in ... to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation ... , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... affectionate name for MIT. hosed (adj.) - Flooded with work, as if attempting to ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  things work, where this came from, that I am not simply chucking numbers ... I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  on doing some hard work and really earning the salary that Boeing has ... get from one point to another and what works for someone else may not be ... was determined to not be embedded into this blog post, but you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’ve been in your room so long… you must have a lot of work today.” ._. Not ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  afraid to leave MIT for a different reason than Anna: it's not working for ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  engaged in discourse about whether their work was moral or not, and what ... opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... to exist, especially when doing a level of work that I used to complete

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school ... . It made me earn everything, it made me learn to take criticism and to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  here, at least not blatantly. I didn't have an interest in working on ... science, I can see myself working at a big tech company, not behind the ... and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , she published but not famous, he working on a debut, who were every inch ... chocolate lab who did not look like a dragon. I was working on a different ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... 're seeking a bit more independence and separation of your school/work life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in cases of strong wind, would unpeg clothes, sending two hours of work ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection ... school, I had nicknames like “Doctor Math” and “2390”. I worked my ass off

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology ... lab assignments with their own designs if they put in some extra work ... , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how ... shitty place mentally and i'm not gonna work on this further" (because I ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

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

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

  

  explicitly marked otherwise. Any opinions expressed are our own, and are not ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... ? Draftback didn’t have this data. Moreover, it's not clear what Draftback ... :00-10:00 had a lack of edits during orchestra, when I was not on my laptop

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... miss their target, because they do not recognize where disappointment ... , who was rejected, tells me that he was hurt and disappointed not because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  extremely nice room and i’m very glad that i live in it. Not only could I name ... 've heard before, but not a person I think I've met. I looked them up in the ... , giving me two more names: Amanda L. '17 and Joie C. '17. Joie did not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022