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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... just staring at computer screens trying to solve puzzles for “fun.” Last ... for Land of Trees and Darkness, or Land of Time and Destiny, or Land of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  current UROP supervisor, who all gave me suggestions for how to make the ... I figured I ought to make a friend. Me: Hello! I guess you're here for ... 'M GOING TO CRY") and read it before I could stop him. He laughed for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  . Otherwise, society should stop expecting women to be primary caretakers for ... ’s child care program only accounts for 0.005% of its overall costs, but that ... not want to join fields that have a track record for sexual harassment

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past ... players left to care for his five-year-old son who had terminal brain cancer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... to be exciting for me." So I tried other things. I sat through ... our teacher to host at our high school for the first time. I bought a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to be shot by Boston police). At around 11:15 Dan and I prepared for ... suggested we call somebody and ask them to check for toy stores. I called my ... Dan traded his ID card for the gun and we headed off, back to the T and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  prices were super expensive. There were no "personal computers" and so in the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls ... both land and airborne cameras to create compelling videos. You may have ... :   Noah was going to be on campus for MIT's SAT test prep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... took pictures. I'll also summarize the pictured hacks for you. It's been ... code with bars shaped to resemble Stata Center Date: May 2004 (the day

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South ... for our route – we actually only got to Kingston before it became too ... .[/annotation] I do not really have a plan for how to navigate the reservation at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... room for special pieces of communal life, but to be really alive it must

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... (which we were warned about, as we were liable for any damage they did to ... We stopped over for lunch in Cheyenne (again, at Sanford's - much to Bowen and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... went back to my gcal for the past three weeks and I filled in every ... . (It's very forest-for-the-trees: I was so busy going from thing to thing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... away? How had we missed that? Well, now we had something to do for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT ... . I'm still sad that I've lost my old love for it, and really need to ... thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... idiot, to be really honest too. I felt like I kind of set myself up for ... sunken cost fallacy may be a fallacy, but it has felt quite real for me

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how ... improvement will finally be enough for me to feel satisfied with all this work ... that the waitress now recognizes you and doesn't even wait for you to sit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I ... is 21M.601, Drawing for Designers, our first assignment was to do ... South Korea over IAP this year to teach again for GTL, but my friend held

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up ... needed to come on for each left shift. I sent the message in this video to

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026