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  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit ... this class more than I expected, to be honest. There are just 4 people in ... want to try to learn. Although I don’t feel particularly invested in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... persevered and managed to design my very first NOT gate in 6.002 lab ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

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

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I ... to hear again. So in honor of my last first day at MIT, here are some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  . Sounds simple on paper but in real life it is enough to actually make you ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... leaned in to see beyond the thick column ahead. The clock struck four

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... to keep appearing in the papers that I read. In my head these people ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... made-up game-problems? Many people enjoy doing game-problems in the news-paper ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of ... begrudgingly agreed to usher his blog entry into the multicolored web portal of ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... to me in particular, since it was also the same class as 21L.014J (the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... three main techniques used to construct objects in Life that behave in ... already-known objects in such a way as to create new composite objects; or 3

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  to go down in a horror movie. Clean white walls, no natural light, a ... -192. Alan: So we moved in the opposite direction, to a large, nondescript ... excited in his life. Second only to when he showed me his app for planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... pretty pro. Look at these beautiful swirly crepes! Props to Niyati ... the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is ... , growing up in South Dakota, I always wanted to get away from home and move

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... papers in Nature, start-up a biofuels company, write a cello concerto that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... permanent or constant in my time here at MIT except for blogging. Even my ... CAD mechanisms to show you or cool coding projects. I have no papers I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022