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  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade ... limit these instances. (Try to) wake up at the same time every day ... waking up at 9am and 11am depending on whether it's Monday or Thursday, etc

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  of the day sitting in front of our computers, but spice things up with ... tried to hug Carl Sagan, but ended up awkwardly covering his mouth ... , hike up to a summit, camp overnight, drive to Harrisonburg and eat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... Boston and almost ended up at the airport, but we found our way back home ... , where students were challenged to run up the 19-story Green Building as

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... up and up again. Now what? After what I went through, I think a lot

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... Regular Action pool. Q: Why hasn’t my Questbridge application shown up on

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes ... these goobers were up to last night? Well, I guess you'll just have to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get ... makes up a huge portion of the site. As Ann Hutchinson Guest put it when ... behind the scenes to make up the Village. Designing the interface is one

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Roy pulled up the app I made*, went to some detergent brand’s page, and ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it ... change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... . Of course, all the surprise bonding activities warmed us up. Who couldn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  of the two majors I ended up in, I would certainly be stuffing my ... , I’ve been wrapping up main summer development, and my team of beta ... for the final competitive round, I realized that I was coming up on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I ... college, finishing up his degree in supply chain management, still ... , computers were always my brother's thing. Growing up I would spend my internet

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  some point during the meeting ended up following a tangent to the world ... in my inbox called “Discussing Cosmic Strings”; Alan ended up giving a ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He ... next two where the first two should have been. Greg picked up a needle ... breath. My heart kept beating. I thought I felt my sternum curl up toward

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  the image we end up seeing, but if you modeled rendering that way, you'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it ... stays there (hopefully), and when you're done, you usually end up with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... of the first to bring up the gender discrimination in academia. He was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  precision (5 birds were perfectly piled up on top of each other) but ... ). Eventually, we all but gave up on winning the competition part and focused on ... ceremony came up, the green team won a giant foam trophy for finishing first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... hadn’t blogged, shown up to lab, or spent much time with friends. I felt ... compared to the happiness you give up to achieve it. This is where it stops

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... knee. Yes, I'm so manly that I beat myself up. I actually didn't notice ... ", wherein you can post question with a specific hashtag, and they show up on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... for 36 hours and then wake up and microwave some leftovers and spend the ... today will be a day worth blogging about, even if I don't end up blogging

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  can end up learning some useful techniques. To be honest, I don ... something you want to research, but you can pick up some practical experience ... that wants you to soak it all up. One day, you might be learning about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011