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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... group. So in late September, when Apple recruiters visited MIT, I leapt ... obsessed over my resume in LaTeX.  I even timed the walk from campus to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you ... , would Jupiter blow up? The gas giants are mostly hydrogen, but I guess you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in ... .011 is "traditional" physics, but I'm not sure exactly how one would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my ... /applicable to anything I do in the future. That's it for now - planning on ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in ... well in such a short time, that anyone who speaks to computers would say

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming traffic while walking and texting, but I think this technology would ... available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.   ... inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... was a lot less painful! I thought that this would actually be my easiest ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve loved that as an undergrad.” “... oh ... physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson ... components in place, I finally had a fully functional system: https

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  beginning of the semester about the order I would drop my classes in, if ... . Heck, almost all MIT students would tell you this is bad. I will tell you ... , so here we are. Well, what are the classes? I'm interested in computer

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... dawns on me that I left my coffee in my dorm room. Ten minutes to my 9 ... bread in the toaster and only realise I cremated my toast when I smell it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  not completed quite as much as I would have hoped. Unwilling to go to ... some more work on campus. In-between work sessions, I wandered campus ... [annotation note='I actually first encountered this phrase in a debate case in high

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... that is no longer accessible. When I think of this place in space and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... : About me: I am a senior who is majoring in 21E: Humanities and Engineering (History and Computer Science).  For this major, I have to take 7 classes in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009