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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . He flew the drone up. And up. And over the water. And a little more ... drone up. And up. And over the lighthouse. And past the lighthouse over

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  wake up after a series of unfortunate events, unfinished nights ... fucked up. If your subconscious doesn’t keep you down, you’ll wish it did ... you up to 1 email a day until you find “unsubscribe.” You will want a

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the ... admissions officer. The only rule is that I don't make stuff up about this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  tripping up the stairs would be if you lost your laptop, and not just your ... that vim is better because it uses fewer commands, takes up less memory ... broke up. And then Deep Vim realized that his girlfriend was right, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... very long and intimidating table: But the interview also ended up ... Spanish. Something deep.” I eventually picked up “Happy Feet.” Penguins are

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , but many more because I was having fun staying up late and just hanging ... up, and rubbed my encrusted eyes. Put on my glasses, and - blink, blink ... face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple ... isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via ... up within my morning commute. Biking is also usually faster than any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between people competing to see who stayed up the longest (though whoever wins is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  . 10.25 am: I gather up my stuff and walk back to my room to get dressed ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... .37 - 4.08 pm: I pull up to class slightly late (which has unfortunately

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  first, I did—I finished assignments over Spring Break and caught up on ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... . Like I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, I had built up a very consistent

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... fall under my purview. Let's clear up some questions. Size ... the humanities department. That didn't end up happening, obviously

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  -wizard tournament that is MIT. You all have worked so hard up to this point, finding ... these memories as you grow up. Because growing up can be really scary. Be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... thinking, Hold up, echoe - you got to see Mark Zuckerberg - the youngest ... are three things I want to have when I grow up and start a career

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  looking up. Sincerely, WS.” WHAT?! My brain exploded. I ran upstairs to ... remain) totally flabbergasted. An e-mail I got from my mom sums it up ... minutes) and have never had trouble setting up a meeting. As an example

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  with any underlying meaning, and merely end up with a contrived essay ... journalist wrote a compelling story, which got picked up by a number of other ... up with a Latin phrase that I heard several months ago that has really

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... , still bleary-eyed from finals, end up grafting ourselves onto their social ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011