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  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... , Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science, along with all three of my ... since taking 6.042 and 6.006 my freshman spring and sophomore fall

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  - with my friend Lee, a drawing machine  I meant to blog about this project ... ) make life decisions™: one of my friends dropped out this year to pursue ... posters. As we round out 2024, I wanted to audit my creative output this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Boston, I was psetting at a library. My friend Alberto H. ‘17 turned to me ... . My friend and current president of Chinese Students Club, Jessica W ... was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  or crossing them, then assigning them a score based on nothing but my ... ’m currently studying to become a civil engineer, and my specific interest lies ... so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  with all my friends, particularly my close friends, I realized that yes ... consider my closest friends I sometimes see much less often during the week. My friend Kevin P. ‘18 and I are very close, and while we hang out a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  friends that would just be selected excerpts from my text messages without ... more friends outside of [annotation note="sigma kappa, my sorority ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  to complain about professors or TAs, as my friend helpfully pointed out ... I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re:MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn

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

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  gravity." Many of my classmates said they dreamed of being astronauts, or of building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates were pilots themselves. One of my classmates related anecdotally how he

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends. I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  site, What makes our dorms great made MIT great, by my friend Allan S ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... Princeton friends, Michael, greets me. He was my host for that weekend. Their ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... made my intestines hum melodies. The morning plowed its way through the ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  problems, but some of these people have become my closest friends at MIT ... mistake, right? When I met with my advisor, I told him I wanted to take 18 ... material on my own. I bombed the first exam and got an email asking if I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  one of my friends apparently pushed out 5000 lines of code that will add ... come play with Zuck's puppy. No, that is not a euphemism. oh my god you ... discover at 5AM that my development sandbox had ingloriously broken. Crushed

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

  Mind and hand

  

  everyone wins. That, my friends, is "Mind and hand". ... both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and ... competition from my last entry). Next term, I'll be taking 6.002 (Circuits and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  probably included. During my own preview weekend, I went to an event where ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one ... weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  last spoonfuls are the sweetest. Sometimes I steal a bite of my friends ... : Should I get my teachers/friends to proofread the essay? For my very first ... some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  somewhat predictable and depends on a complex set of factors mostly beyond my ... usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or running around the Charles on my way to the gym. Ethan Zuckerman, who was my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Services will add an X and make it a pair. In my circles, it’s a pretty well ... to about April of 2017. Things were starting to bubble up in my ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020