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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , looking up would waste time; that was the lesson he wanted us to learn ... other one lasts for weeks at a time, without reason or pattern behind ... you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  during the times of slavery, only to realize they could not understand the ... their premeditated assumptions was a waste of my time. So I decided to ... first time. You are now a freshman in college and as the oldest of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  the list until you got to the part about the economics major?” Similarly ... times we don’t know what to write, and even when we do, we don’t know if ... got a 700 on the SAT I math section, and every time I get asked "zomg I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... when you meet her, and she spends a lot of her time making sure the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  code since I get nervous and embarrassed every time he watches me code ... offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  lie. Our friends had come in from jobs and graduate school all over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... longer seem as foreign as it did at the time. The gym was completed shortly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... instead. 10.35 - 10.54 am: I'm dressed with some time to spare. This is an ... time, which means that classes start five minutes after the hour and end

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... discovering what it's like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it doesn't make you an altogether sane person for that time, or an altogether

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... an 8-part serial. I might have remembered it better if I had read it as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... , every time someone sneezes, coughs, has an abrasion or even just talks of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got ... most votes after an unspecified amount of time would be declared the ... voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself! Be a good friend and support your community through tough times, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing ... , but part of me feels like it’s a cop-out, as I’ve already taken a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note ... completely the correct dimension, but at the time [annotation note="which led ... taking place during the times when the most people were onsite. This meant

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024