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  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

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  're also very different people. And yet, we have become good friends. It ... the bossa nova, getting dim sum with other 5W friends, learning perc ... . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• 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 / 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 / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  sanity. When I'm stressed, I need my friends. I need an ear, a shoulder ... personalities, and I don't even know if they would get along with my friends from London - but that doesn't matter. Do CPW I made my first friend at MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... Nero. My internship was remote, so I often worked at Caffe Nero and did groceries during my lunch break to stretch out my legs. During one of my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... believe in. Free as in what? When I asked one of my CMS friends about this ... Sciences.']my CMS hat[/annotation] on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... . False. I found my limits - pushed them, broke them, flailed about, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  couldn’t just afford to go to bed. Coffee became my new best friend ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018