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  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... - a prospective student asked one of the admissions counselors, who ... , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... out of the dryer six days ago anyone else permanently going through a ... does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  I did a lot better than I expected! I thank the teachers for a good ... with people for a while. 11.20 - 11.27 pm: I zip over to the laundry ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  toons (a guest performance for the olin college powerchords): toons sang ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  listening to someone lay out a plan for the next week, and the overhead ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... with a coffee table. I planned out the shape and size over IAP and bought ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  sure I owned one in first grade), but a reflection of respect for the ... friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about the value ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  forms a stable foundation for future classes. I think the effects of a ... in high school. Last week, I dropped a class for the first time--so I ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical

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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  the day someone dressed up as a corona beer who was too far away for ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog ... finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  life. This is one of the reasons it's such a difficult choice, but I ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... with family friends and in writing the blog entry. It seems like such a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

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

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

  

  want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... that you are. As a proxy for having friends, there are the subject ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021