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

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... research paper on immigration reform due this weekend that I should probably

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  math, we'd most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. HA, usually taking ... figure out where on this diagram we want to fall. But now, with a year into ... one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... within the sorority--the founder class. We decided on an aspirational name ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  proclaims "Challenge accepted..." Oh, how true. When giving tours on campus ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... Boston Public Garden. Fog on the Charles River at sunrise. Crossing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  .[/annotation] Then, you see the O on your transcript, thinking nothing of it, until you ... you can confirm that they don’t actively want you to fail. https://www.youtube ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... there are very different solutions which can’t be compared on the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work ... . More on these things further down the blog, though, and we can start

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... exam, on "arithmetic, algebra, geometry, English grammar, geography, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would stare at us. When I was six years old, we were on the subway in Shanghai

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... strengths while completing applications, but also rely on your community. This

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  . Upon killing, one absorbs their victim's victim, and so on until one ... encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn ... shouted at each other some more, banged our fists on the table, disturbed ... shut up (using choice words that I cannot put on the blogs) and I stayed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  asking about their work. A little more on this specialization resentment ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... , become a physicist, profit. I, on the other hand, was certain that I WASN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... thought I did much better, but I only got roughly 40 more points than last ... resonant replies not just on Reddit (over 2,000 upvotes) but rivals almost

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012