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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about how miserable we both were. Something needed to change. Anything. We ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  you don’t realize how refreshing it is to leave until you actually do ... but didn’t know how to start. Joining these organizations provided a ... be telling of how the chapter operates. Pay attention to the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... 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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... a bit this week was how possible is it to balance the tough academic ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... masters degree. I’ve learned how to keep learning--how to adopt new skills by sifting through (loads of) academic journals, how to find and study

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... you're trying to go, and how you want to leave. You can set three ... ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t yet figured out how to infinitely loop GIFs, so to preserve the ... about my high school was that we had to take classes about how to do ... asked if I knew how to play Connect Four, to which I responded with a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have ... . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work ... other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ="i did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I ... unable to actually to actually touch you. Your GPA remains exactly how it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  . Zuckmeister seems to fall into the latter category. How Elizabeth Felt After ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... undergrad. Similar to when I left my family in Denver, I didn't realize how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... learn how to communicate with a variety of people, but you will also learn ... heart-breaking reality. And it’s important to remember just how much

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  what sort of water data to look for, how to design our solution, and what ... their work, who their contributions would impact and how. My response to ... Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015