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  Back to work

  

  great thing about MIT is that while many people come in with strong ... sophomore year. The cool thing about MIT faculty is that more often than not ... welcome ceremony on Thursday night -- the "top 10-ish reasons to come to MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... 've taken to opening it up through computers in my lab via athena.dialup.mit ... "Professor Hamel," and although he's an amazing instructor, I think he is one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... match pre-existing design elements--Ruth is painting her walls to ... . Economy Hardware is actually really expensive, but it's within walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  it felt to be a prefrosh -- I was all "oh god, everybody at MIT is ... the gpa to be looked at out of 5.0 since MIT is extremely tough." The ... . MIT is tough, and graduate school admissions personnel are completely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  chance is chance. When winter break hit, we had to forget about MIT to ... up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  likely not closed [annotation note="any is an overstatement but it was ... > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then ... ) "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot because April is the cruelest month

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... year. But, regardless of how vague the role is, or how any person chooses to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT ... realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis ... . choosing whatever i’m interested in is easier than it sounds. i’m probably

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  as JKim, but this is because by the time you have gone to MIT for three ... DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... 's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized ... things to blog about: my "blog backlog" in Trello is stacked deep with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  MIT and experience an assortment of campus life and events ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura ... , which is probably my favorite [annotation note="Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... preseason is the time to get to know each other better. [carousel image1

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that ... mailing list. the other strategy i've seen is having alumni stick around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  that a Course 6 education from MIT has given me is the ability to pick up ... Final Fantasy VII. MIT was home, and today is just another small step I ... an MIT student. I wouldn’t consider myself graduated emotionally, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some ... that post has to relate back to MIT in some way. But my boss and the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  today is the 'unluckiest day', then maybe tomorrow is the luckiest? If not ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... extra years of life   How schools kill creativity This video is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ! One of the big things I learned about Cambridge springs is that there is ... If there's one thing I learned about Cambridge in the spring, is that ... Omega 6". In other words, it's good for you and it's definition is an

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is ... campus tours, the sun is shining beautifully, the steps of the Student ... . Weinberg - who was my professor for 7.012 last fall - is a brilliant

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008