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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... visualizing rotations of two- and three-dimensional shapes in one’s mind, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it. Exit the elevator and grumble when you see the stairwell you always take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and State College have both become home, though in very different ways, State College over eight years and Boston over the past three. Here are a ... animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  Boston University, just across the river. And although it hasn’t been ... , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... , because both EC and BC didn't have air conditioning in individual rooms and ... (Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups) rent their available

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  .091[annotation note="Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry"][/annotation] and 8 ... mental state was (and still is) the reserve of energy on which everything ... students smiling and laughing while sitting on a perfectly sunlit lawn under

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical ... ://www.etotheipiplusone.net/, where he's posted careful documentation, models, and other stuff so you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching ... quiz, and they offered to ship shark plushies to the people who scored ... post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  friends have called me, and messaged me, unprompted, offering me support ... like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually vulgar conversations and the stupid, stupid things we care about–we’re just ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that ... somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... home to nine different floors with unique cultures, histories, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... Dark Materials and the residents of our universe know these particles as ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the ... with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017