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

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... hadn’t seen in ages. It’s an interesting combination; the beginning and ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... . Printers would only print in black and white. Face paint and makeup would simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... in design schools are expensive and computers are cheaper.” He

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... least partly captured in our ceiling tiles. Below are the ceiling tiles in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee ... in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  final projects. My only exam was in 6.034 (artificial intelligence ... seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair. I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied, because he was in any way deficient, but because the British army was too

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind ... ’re deferred, and you get trapped in an endless purgatory, living in torturous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

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

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

  

  pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019