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

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... itself which was a non-trivial part of my grade. I sent Prof. Grimson an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea. I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a ... particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• 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.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... chemistry is probably one of my favorite subjects - drawing those little arrow

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... with a sense of inspiration and a desire for greatness like I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... sometimes like i am made of you guys” 2014 “My first semester ended two weeks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024