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  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  have led the way on some of the most important reforms to the MIT ... everyone here, and for the new class perhaps most of all. As I wrote that ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  hour elapses quickly. 6:07 PM I read Infinite Jest on the porch of my ... 've spent a good number of months here, it feels like home.   ... day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... record of things so you can look back on it. Also...can we talk about the "got into MIT" on 12/15? boiiiiii Here's how I kept track of smaller

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  little corner of my heart was still disappointed. Maybe I just wasn't good ... moving on to the next song when one of the music directors of [annotation ... This Friday, [annotation note="hopefully, if we're running on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  good. And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four, exhale on a count of four. Repeat twice more. You’re gonna be okay ... reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy, really good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  wants to help others, and what i really want is a way of satisfying both parts of myself for a while i thought the way to go about this was to ... good for the world; the problem is that those two parts of me both feel

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  . On my way to the student center, I passed a football game. MIT vs ... match. And this week, I went down hard. MIT landed a good right hook and I ... be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like ... furniture and, hazed by a callous carousel of Logan-traipsing on four hours of ... Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  …. I’ve worked on a grand total of…dun dun dun… 1 page. :X I know, I ... things…or just generally, the saturation of material goods all over the ... marking on every new page.

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... two flights of stairs (grade five) to trying to sit back on a chair ... holding a fat chunk of cake. 5) SEPTEMBER 12: On September 12, 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  possible? I made my way to the central lounge on my floor with a bunch of ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... -laden identity of “being on top” that might have defined your high school years

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of the three top contestants received 33.xx% of the votes - statistically ... You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to learn something new at every seminar. The list of the seminars that ... "Do Doctors Make Good Decisions? History and the Complications of ... Byrne – Clinical Professor of Neurology "Mirror Neurons: Impact on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  a good way of inerrantly measuring "Academic Potential", I'd love to ... just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on ... . Nehalita asked, Could you do a separate entry on class plans? I know a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... same people that attend that school, almost hypocritical in a way. What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  but recognize now, or new ways of change that have cropped up? i ... feels Z". on reflection, that's a very impersonal way of seeing the world ... on senior year me, and the ways they were thinking about what grad

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  three and a half weeks. I spend my time with new friends instead of old ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are ... sort of the way we’ve always done things as opposed to being an extreme ... pronouns on Facebook to “they/them” regardless of your actual gender in order

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016