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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  usually going through the material too quickly, at least for us). For 6 ... this medium has the power for real social impact, through identity ... of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions ... assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at ... , or for a design job at some fancy firm, or writing, or an engineering ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  dumping everything else in a pot and letting it simmer for at least 45 ... simmer for at least 40 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking ... . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  and make for good company. If you have pets at home but not at school ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  for genetic engineering for fetuses at getting rid of crippling genetic ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... ’s longest winning streak ever at 15 games. And just like that, our season was ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  to do anything but check out and stare at a screen? I long for boredom ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me ... sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  demons on depression

  

  . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research ... feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... , I’m not coming back until I’m home for good. That means I end up ... and working for a long time. Small Headphones - These are for walking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... was an attempt at what one might call a “character study” for a ... were there for me. I don’t know how effective it was at the time, but for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020