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  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  also taught me that you don't become capable of doing hard things before ... matter what you believe or don't believe, Just Do It they say, and like a ... , because if I don't get enough, my body will start to break down. When I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  on it liking various pages that don’t exist anymore, and updating my ... were there for me. I don’t know how effective it was at the time, but for ... got up, running to... Running to, to… I don’t know, but I was running

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  challenge of the class was explaining how markets worked. I don’t think we did ... part, a tiny portion of how the whole program worked, and I still don’t ... else felt like magic. I don’t know how it happened, but it did. And all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  traditionally stands precariously at the edge of a cliff. We don't really have cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don't ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... full. you get treated like you know a baseline that you don't and you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  freshman you should come by, even if you don’t live here yet, because you might want to live here, and if you don’t want to live here you might want ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  don't like noise? What the WHAT?!"). We shared the same room with each ... whatever. We had to prove ourselves constantly. I don't think it was always ... hell did for me. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  -in one that came with the laptop when I bought it four years ago. I don't ... ourselves in. I don't know if I should send in my pictures of all the PODS ... need because I'm not really sure what kind of help I need I just don't

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  technical things, to figure out that we just don't. Yes, we still really like ... most of whom are undergrads. And we don't want to leave this place ... the struggle. Don't get wrapped up in the letter. The next class we

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  reasons--farmers don’t have much tax to give, and infrastructure is ... ” or “I don’t have the time” or even as basic and seemingly valid as “I don’t know how to do this” (I literally knew nothing about water before

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (because best practices don't really exist yet) BEFORE they jump headfirst ... know you can identify what you like or don't like about a video but can ... classes where I can’t actually apply the material or don’t feel motivated

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want ... blood and bones and makes you feel like you don't exist or are extremely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  lagging behind, you will quickly learn how to swim (don't worry, you just ... . Don't get addicted to coffee; don't drink Monsters. Apply for a College

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think ... cross into Cambridge, but rather, into Charlestown. In fact, I don’t think ... don’t fall. There are faces absorbed in their phones, people talking to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  don't mean this in the cutesy can-sorta-sing-but-is-just-saying-this way ... time trying to chart the rest of my life. ...and realizing that I don’t ... fingers. Isn’t that surreal? And sure, I don’t have to think about having

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... it felt like a warm hug to you all, too. I don't know if the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  mens et manus: mind and hand. It is a message stating that we don’t only ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  beginning, and I have learned so much. Don’t get me wrong, though, the start ... what that and a healthy dose of determination can amount to.  So, don’t

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  life, even, without ever noticing that other people don't have rain ... knees, my waist, my neck. An unrelenting flood that will drown me if I don't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019