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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post ... committere, which has evolved meanings over time, from "consign someone to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... . Although they usually consume most of my total time, there are no surprises ... awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the ... schedule meant I could obtain more money-yielding jobs. I added 1 to see how ... signals to my body. Dangerously low. Lower. Gone. Time to find a charging

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of time walking along its streets and pathways. Whether it was a walk ... that far less interesting than telling you about the times I cried while ... actually located on the dam part of dam bridge, and a highway runs through it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... senior spring and think about not having a job after graduation. I really ... graduation I could always go home, spend time with the fam, and keep searching

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

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room ... think sounds really intriguing. One time, I wanted to know what autolyzed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  was the first time I had heard of Penn, and my mind hadn’t yet been ... had been routine process for my high school (which was partly owned by ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... advice, puzzle hunt archives and artifacts of his time as an undergrad (and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... the fact that many bloggers in that time period identified as LGTBQ ... summer was the first time in my life that I locked myself in my bathroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... 'm at MIT two or three times a week, coaching the cheerleading squad. When

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's the first fiction class I've taken in a long time, maybe even since ... page story, and other times they're as specific as "Write a four ... Morocco" every time he says anything. "How many times have you seen that 'I

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all-East-Campus-all-the-time ... , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  has grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents who are part ... join this sorority, at the time, the Cambridge chapter had become ... provided her with the additional reassurance that taking part in Black Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... there worth it? Am I doing a good job of being a good person, of being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  college as part of a larger project of intellectual discovery and ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major ... better. For many, MIT will be the first time in your life when you really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not ... consciousness, subjective stuff that isn't truth the way other parts of ... do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6 ... though I wasn't rejected the first time I applied, I was deferred, and it kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014