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  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Registration Day, which is always a Monday. Although classes don't start until ... , because it doesn't satisfy the CI-H communication requirement. Instead, we ... first step :) I've always really liked linguistics, but haven't gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... have 24-hour study spaces, which don't have access to actual books but can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  hadn’t had in a long time. However, boba tea (or any other form of cold ... his assistants take us out for (free) bobas, and sadly I couldn’t make ... thought process while choosing it also wasn’t really brainy (it’s summer, I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  the point where I wasn’t every fully content with what I was writing ... can’t ever control how others respond and feel about the things you ... reached a plan for 8,726,400 SOS that wasn’t perfect but as good as it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  the friends I haven’t seen since last summer Sometimes there really is ... who work in my area aren’t here yet. In fact none of them are, except my ... . The file is organized, I promise, it just isn’t pretty. 10:30 AM- I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  emotions didn’t seem to work like the people I cared about the most. I’m now ... heard of anyone doing this before, didn’t really know that self ... in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  fixes.  As in, it opened at noon on Monday, and they weren’t planning to ... pm the next day, other than an early morning nap.  I don’t know much ... , etc., but we weren’t going head to head.  No robot battles

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  dramatically. I didn’t expect senior year to feel like the same ‘level up’ that ... Requirements (GIRs) I wasn’t very passionate about them. Senior year, I’m only ... equivalent of Hamlet, filled with words we don’t use anymore that are basically

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  AMAZING. If you haven't seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it's beautiful ... prototype of Strum looks really polished and clean, it wasn't always that way ... to tell your friend to do an extra coat but couldn't because the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  atop the one I'm wearing to feel any warmth. It doesn't matter; I won't ... several minutes, more guests filter in. But the main cavalry hasn't arrived ... and juice and Malta (I squeal in delight at this, I haven't had Malta in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  past week has been packed with company info sessions, free food, free t ... don't think I'll ever come close to grabbing more than 33 t-shirts in a ... that doesn't mean I'll ever be done tweaking and reformatting the layout

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   ... future, but ultimately you can’t predict or control what will happen to you ... of a project. I own it, even if goodness knows it wasn’t my idea. When

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  . Calculators can’t reveal that, but a better understanding, or insight, of ... find out how deep it is. It takes T = 4 seconds for the stone to drop ... formula for the height of the well: . A bit overwhelming, isn’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  are clinically depressed. if you don't assign any value to human pleasure, don't you just become completely apathetic? i'm thinking of my ... that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn’t think of better advice. I don’t blame them, certainly, they were just trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... something that couldn’t crawl out of my plate or didn’t seem to be having ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  past year. They all wore matching black t-shirts that said SIDE BY SIDE ... blessing, because Dudamel took off his fancy jacket to reveal a black t ... stumbled over his words, mumbling that he didn't really know the music that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... landscape of East Campus. I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t really ... realizing what it was. It doesn’t really invade the space, but rather

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn't ... me and said: hey, why don't you come back next year and teach a class ... conservatory for classical guitar next year. I can't even begin to tell you how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  conference, and very informative. I didn't know a lot about admissions before I ... President of Yale and an influential economist. While I don't have time to go ... -blind admissions policies to accept only wealthier students who wouldn't require as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011