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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... , and an increased sense of affection for what is mechanically no more ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... midterm exams so far this semester - and at least one per week for the last

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... Course 6 and the German department for the German courses to count as HASS classes; meeting with your academic advisor for more approval and signatures

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  inputs for length, width, and height. Make a rectangle using your width and ... scripts and formulas you can use. Base Knowledge For you to be able to ... . Add an egg on top for protein, and you're done. F(V, G, S) = H2(S1(V1

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... Tapps, WA Between Vancouver and Victoria, BC New Orleans, LA ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  for last year’s bb8 droid video and the previous year’s drone video, so ... many people asking for their time and permission. We did a lot of ... !   MIT Wind Tunnel, Edgerton Center, and Center for Bits and Atoms

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  ‘no’. Recognize when you’re hosed for the week, and don’t volunteer to ... think that this speaks for itself. Also: that AWESOME idea you had between ... studied harder for a test than you ever have in your life, maybe, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... over the years. I am grateful for all the memories and laughs we’ve shared, and I’m insanely grateful that they have been there for me year

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... the images and just read between the lines, you know? Then you don ... credit could always be earned for effort, synthesis of ideas, and correct

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  "]In everything?[/annotation] In such great amounts? And thus begins my crusade for ... goose liver pate and cooked for four hours. Rabbit is extremely tender and ... kitchen with smoke. so the smoke detectors went off and the fire alarm for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... essentials. It’s split across 2 floors: bottom for cardio and top for ... treadmills, 2 ellipticals, and 3 stationary bikes. For weightlifting, there are

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  walking between the Student Center and Lobby 7. Lauren appeared, holding a ... long talks with friends. I hadn't done anything for the last few days and ... and I sat down in my room and talked for the next three hours. He made

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 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 ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... between the Big Apple and the Big Smoke (New York clearly wins in the ... Arabic. Christian and Muslim evangelicals jostle for the same space outside

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  Minority Education and Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. We ... ’t expect. The difference between seeing and not seeing an entire dimension ... difference between seeing and not seeing incidents of discrimination that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air ... possibility. Opportunity. Another future opened itself to me, sparkly and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked ... , and just extracted the parts I needed for the psets ("selective ... 8-class semester are subtle and for me they came after rather than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  breathe - and I'm sure you guys feel the same way between senior year APs ... , patience, and a little bit of tolerance for the seemingly endless stream of ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  reusing the same template for two years now, and just switching around some ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... to companies that I am genuinely interested in working for and have the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019