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  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... of each section I was reading for later review and cheat sheet copying

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences ... experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  usually going through the material too quickly, at least for us). For 6 ... thinking that it might just be better for us to stop taking course 6 classes ... our lives during freshman year. We realized that what impacts us most

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... failed a test I studied two days for. Then I slept for three hours a night

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  . The pigeon-headed zombie must have felt sorry for us because after ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after ... to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for other reasons—my host was already known as "the funny one" among

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  with a date 3 weeks later. In hindsight, this was very lucky for us in ... 20 hours of work for us each), we really only had 3 data points we were ... wrong, so we had to send out another correction; luckily for us, it didn

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  to Killian Court where our friends and families waited for us. Photo ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... walkouts scheduled for March and April. In response, some high schools have ... to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One ... way, congrats if you got in! Come hang out with us for CPW!) ... given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015