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

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... work set the basis for several new developments i.e. using yeast to ... schools he/she wants to because that person struggles at MIT to maintain a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  serve as a more personal way for MIT to connect with alumni for donations ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  drugs to treat cancer. Almost everything created there is super exciting ... designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when ... cold shower Listening to music/painting/art Go for a walk or run ... , because a person in distress can not give you consent for touching their

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... UROPs. Don’t be stuck working for a lab you don’t want to work for or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  what to keep personal, and how you want to curate your online presence is ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I ... 't really matter if the personality is a match. I want to own a real live pig

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be ... responsibility to succeed academically to pay back my parents for all the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... , or collecting a large set of people named Josh to fight for the right

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if ... interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic ... to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office would match admitted students to current students for overnight stays over ... admitted women than men chose to attend. For minority students, the 1981

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... tend to stick around longer than anyone expects. Consider the ESP website ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs ... involves. I don't know what, exactly, led me to nominating myself for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... super reach for HYPM” “EC's aren't that good imo, to spread out kind of ... -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... unexpectedly rainy shoots, to Elton John for writing the song that got me through ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... wrong. I looked up a tutorial online that did something similar to what we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person ... are. I did everything from: Buying lunch for the talent and crew

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... evaluations; I personally prefer to look subject evaluations up through Firehose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021