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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  fruit. You walk up to another table, and there are two options for meals ... , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  Manager (MIT MS) Real estate agent and mortgage officer Political ... -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  absurd amounts of money in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street and ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  , and stumble to lab in search of free caffeine. [annotation note="AND the ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... towers and had a relay race while wearing bright colored helmets. Professor

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots of snipers and motorcades but in terms of actually seeing the president ... more amateur (which = real). So go ahead and listen to his speech, or at

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  free coffee and tea great view super comfy couch good table space ... space, located right next to Sloan Pros free coffee and tea + a bevi ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  understanding and evaluating a case, which in term makes it more likely that some ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  the Bulletin, is available free online and provides a comprehensive ... We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ...  exciting things our current students are up to! We'll also send you important news and
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  to the prompts of your college essays. Some colleges are very free and ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , there are also places where collaboration has been fruitful, and people ... everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  understood what Miller-Rabin was and why it works. Part 3: The why game Free ... , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  preferences: gluten-free, vegetarian, non-spicy, dairy-free, and all that jazz ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• 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 actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  still get my work done. Exercise and fruit. Exercise and fruit. Exercise and fruit. I wish I'd never psetted during lecture, never skipped one ... struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  into the real world and work on real problems. I thought that maybe I ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006