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

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break. My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• 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 wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  Community Biotechnology Initiative."]weekly lectures[/annotation] from ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... ) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  -minded. Perhaps that means adding a college to your list that you initially didn ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  with me past midnight trying (and failing) to build a snowman. I’m sorry ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... more than ever before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Optimal Procrastination Technique:  How to trick yourself into

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  initially refused to give me the boarding pass, saying I was too late. I ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

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