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  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... you have not heard of College Confidential, good for you. College

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  it isn’t that every day in those dips are bad. I did good work on some ... that the way it actually works, is this: And that lying on the couch ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... [/annotation] in a variety of different ways. Some of these ideas will be useful ways

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  handicap accessibility ramp A new elevator on the Conner side Removal of ... on-campus people if NV is open. This way, the different numbers of on ... walls of the new BC. People are looking into installing sliding wall

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a ... water, with the rational side of me giving way to trepidation. The bad

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  friends, read something on paper (the New Yorker, or a good book) until I ... makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... somewhat predictable and depends on a complex set of factors mostly beyond my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... were accepted. The rest, like me and one of my good friends, were ... ’s way of politely denying applicants. I spent the time before final

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  sometimes felt like they were able to be that way in spite of MIT, not because ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... loved my jobs. There are, of course, tradeoffs to the way I did things. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... fast paced nature of computer science research. Conference peer review ... determined based on descending amount of contributions."]third author

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... spend a lot of time on the internets answering questions about MIT and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  confidence, more good memories. I hope I have a better grasp of who I am ... This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of ... receptive. Sofia’s answer was spot on. I don’t want to string any more of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... unprecedented. At the end of the DormCon planning process, we settle on two new ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  , or if you just like it that way. Throw seasonings on it. Salt and ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  , this deal is too good to pass up. Research. I mentioned one of the ... part of your identity, but also embrace everything your new environment ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through ... shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of ... ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... of the $3.50 cups in Boston that don't even taste that good (I never ... for most of their other dishes though...very meh. 34. Check out the New

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... shiny new visa in the mail, thank goodness, because you don't know

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018