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• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... , but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do ... project, so here’s a list of the 10 most useful lessons. 1.  Lightning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the ... . The Internet became my playground, providing me with an endless array of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... face, because of the fact that we spent ~12 hours studying during our ... badly on the third exam, in which case, our fate of passing or failing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was ... Square (still during said FPOP) and feeling the vibration of the trains

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh ... '[/annotation]. Someone offers to bring me the ladder so I can get off rope, but I refuse to ... for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... virology, and I can find others who share the same strange combination of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... exactly the same. On top of hearing variations (or combinations) of “slay ... agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... —we have [annotation note= "as indicated by the slew of MIT confessions about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... view of the night sky for three and a half hours because THE SUN GOES ... everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are ... Counselor (EC) may be the first interview you’ve ever had. Some of you may ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... of my best friends from MIT finished his two-year fellowship in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... just in time for the freshman spring season to finish. End of freshmen

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... of vicarious prefrosh cheer through the next few voicemails in a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort ... being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... weekend. It’s set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s robot novels. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019