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

  

  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 ... when they talked about being hosed. On Monday we had a physics midterm

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... on giving students the computer science skills she felt went overlooked ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in

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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... advance for all the shakiness. Here is ~10 minutes from the 1 hour talk ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... getting divorced, your house burning down, your girlfriend cheating on you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today, on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... for fifteen minutes. I woke up fifteen minutes later. I turned off the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  hanging on anymore. I also realized that it was REALLY COLD. Like, -5°C cold ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... 18[/caption] If I could write a book on Freshman Fall, it would

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... minute that the patients would win in their fights against death. My heart ... was love. It was kindness Classes began on Wednesday with everyone

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the ... , unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  White man) explained that for the next 30 minutes they would work on a set ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... -bound females who perform well on SAT math also perform correspondingly well in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... 't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... there. I feel like I passed the person I should have been on the street

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not ... engineers everywhere that the cameras on my 2014 smartphone and my 7th grade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I’m especially interested in docking and landing spacecraft -- landing rovers on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... on it. Sometimes may have been this whole weekend. Are we good ... just carry on and pretend like this never happened? Meet you outside by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to ... minutes going through all of my stuff, I spent a good hour rummaging through

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning

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