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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ?"]usage,[/annotation] and they all have different memories associated with them because of ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also ... bridges, which are the ones I have the most experience with. Maybe one day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... would go with the latter, but since there's only a few days left in the ... instead. 10.35 - 10.54 am: I'm dressed with some time to spare. This is an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... separation. Senior House was built along with the Main Group of MIT's campus in ... has stuck with MIT for the last 65 years, and has led to a rough

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... with it. On the other hand, this was a place where "queer" was a word ... environment we lived in. We moved on with our lives. There are many fish in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... MIT forever. Screenshot your conversations and share them. (With ... outside MIT. Go on walks with friends. Go on walks in the tunnels. Follow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember ... and a cover with tiny wrinkles and rips. When I entered middle school ... , then all of my loudness will be for nothing. It’s the same thing with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week ... - rooms, bathrooms, dorm lounges, or with a friend. The other places (which ... ’d like to cry with me, feel free - I’ll bring tissues. The East Campus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... in class that attendance in your lab section was mandatory with no ... else, am excited that he'll be mine while I'm here. With all the praise

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  , philosophical talks with parents that simply aren't possible over the phone. The ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do ... scheme of things. They understand that passing a class at MIT with a C

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man ... been the MIT valedictorian, with a major in "nonlinear cryptography ... ;Rhodey" Rhodes, an MIT graduate. Stark talks about a 1987 spring break trip with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with ... from their first choice schools and yet are completely in love with where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  their experience with the dorm during REX and CPW. Watch the dorm i3 ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your ... almost anyone can survive with a roommate, the number of roommates or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... love with the idea. Chance-me scorers worsened my confidence. I did ... out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  relationship with stress. When I was younger, I had what could be described as ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... worked out that I'd get home with plenty of time to spare. As I started

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay ... credit, so I might as well kill as many birds as possible with one stone

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  filled with low-pressure mercury vapor. When the light is turned off, this ... 't fluorescent bulbs just like incandescents with bigger batteries? Well, as soon ... green donut-thing with red wire? That's a huge inductor. And then the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  -checking! 5:05 PM: 5.112 office hours at ESG with Mindy, the other chemistry TA ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... thing over with. 9:05 PM: Crash on a couch in the lounge. Pull out book

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  house with low ceilings and creaky floors, so it was immediately clear I ... thirtysomething ginger with a Ron Paul bumper sticker who asked if I could pay him ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  talking on the phone with strangers. I didn't tell my parents about the ... the things that are wrong with your work. Then college admissions season ... flaws in our personhood. We don't get a WHY along with our NO, so we come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019