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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  to a different school, or picked an easier schedule in this one. But I ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and pressure sensor in future), or press the right button to snooze. If ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses

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

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

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... things I had done to keep myself occupied in the summer, though it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... ; furthermore, people walk at close to three miles per hour, or sixty blocks per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask ... Zoom dinner with them to check in and see how they're doing.  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... one thing. But displaying my intellectual incompetence to them in real ... people do Next Haunt in groups of five or six). Jebby and Aiden were

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your ... ), or just a random nerdy conversation in the lounge, those are the times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... top of that to absorb liquid Without a proper scalpel or other proper

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  or at home to live in the Institute dormitories", with specific mention ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  simply just don't happen. Or, they end up wanting to do other things in ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

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

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... in either 14.30 or 14.05, and further in 14.19 our junior fall.  There

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010