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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  , excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907.0625 floor tiles. There are 960.296875 wall tiles, 439.1875 floor tiles, and 70 ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... change is real, and the result of human activity. The evidence is ... ), and the rise is clearly associated with fossil-fuel burning. Global sea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  move on, don't drag them back down into an unhealthy state of sorrow and ... 's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school ... -serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know, I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... the committee. Then a second reader (and sometimes a third) will read and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... recruit frosh"]Frat rush[/annotation] is happening as I write this, and one ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  to Urban Planning, and (4) was offered an incredible and very ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow." -- Neil Armstrong, February

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;/impressively></p> <p>AND Now, Ladies And Gentlemen, For Your Viewing Pleasure ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... . Spelling out "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" takes a while. Nowadays

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008