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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  one on sale at the Container Store (BEST STORE EVER) that folds up, so ... alarm clock. I had an awesome one with an iPod dock - so I could wake up ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... a CPU, using components that we’d built from the logic gates up ... ’ve never been so happy being so miserable. I ended up dropping 14

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... up early and go to bed.....well still late most nights if we’re being ... , I’m not coming back until I’m home for good. That means I end up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  point, and— No, hold up. That's a lie. I was kind of a lot fixated. And I ... , I encourage you to stand up, shut off your communication devices, make ... good. And if you feel up to it, I hope you try making a "2014

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I ... -how to distract a friend; that he stopped during his run to pick up a horse ... have to helping other people. It can be as trivial as cheering up a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  -to-lead”. Symptoms include: -Compulsively taking up an executive or management position ... you're involved with -Struggling to keep up academically -Calendars that ... ][email protected] mailing list. It means speaking up when you think the group is wandering

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb ... provide a big initial voltage, then turn it down and set up some sort of ... wave going in is right, the voltage in the capacitor voltage builds up

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this ... Vietnamese rice bowls with my coworkers. But not only have I been upping my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... support this story. The days leading up to the conference, we all stayed up ... ways and Youtube tutorials, I picked up poi spinning that semester. Near

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... path facing the Big Dome: same reason as above. Walking up Vassar after ... . Lobby 7: At night, when there weren't many people there, I'd just look up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... eventually figures something out, and we end up running[annotation note ... set. My co-chair and I set up a few meetings in early June to discuss

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  up on my shoulders like clay dropping from the sky. by the end of ... out what was wrong with my docker setup, and gave up five seconds later ... so well, up until that weekend[/caption] on monday morning, i woke up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... up with our own WHYs that often just make us feel terrible. It

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... eighth day, my self-reflection woke up. Since then, I've been thinking a ... should remember not to beat myself up if I'm not exactly where I want to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... family walked in while I was tearing up and hugging my dog, and it took me ... . Went to bed super late so I didn't have to wait once I woke up. Woke up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  weeks ago, I joined an a cappella group, and I did wind up living in East ... fencing takes up most of my extracurricular commitment, so I can’t join most ... , and I was often tempted to just give up and let the river wash me back

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at ... was never something I felt like I missed at MIT. I’d stay up late ... will always impose constraints which are beyond your control. It’s up to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  my homework never! stay up forever! walk around in my bathrobe all day

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  really well—sometimes people just stop picking up their phones. When I ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you ... to hold my tongue if a higher-up at a future workplace said something

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015