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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... simply just don't happen. Or, they end up wanting to do other things in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... because these shadowrun signs are small and hard to find, they can stay up ... of other students, up against Death Eaters. I didn't come in ready to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... every detail of my life as I grew up. Even now, I remember somewhat ... a phrase that always made me wary growing up, now brings me immense

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... seem to have time to catch up on sleep because, like many other people on ... usually ends up taking up even more time. On the topic of fitness, there

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... . Ayomide F. ‘18 came up in a couple discussions we had because she had worked ... almost looks made up--stereotypical MIT professor surrounded by tons of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  objectively horribly. The third one went much better: I showed up early and ... can be cut up into a discrete number of triangles, and the area of these ... is to cut the polygon up into triangles, cut each triangle up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  like the dumb one who's in over her head."  There were other ups and ... folders alphabetically. Her entire education has been leading up to this ... it gets so caught up in being "awesome" that it forgets about this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . The problem you're coming up against is one I've seen so many of my fellow students encounter. If I could set up a wavy-fade flashback, I ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  blows up to the point that if you skip class, nobody will notice except ... 't. Even if they just stand up there and lecture at you, though, you shouldn ... people who don't work half as hard as you and end up doing twice as well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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