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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... . The sun now set at half past four. The world as I knew it was no longer ... previously conditioned to when the sun set at 7 and I went to bed at 11. Only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... IAP and am publishing my research at the Bridges Conference this summer ... (@roesbynoothername) on May 16, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT   Ellen F. ‘14, MEng ‘15 I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... ’t brave enough to follow through. But freshman year at MIT was also fertile ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  . I saw him the next day, at the weekly Physics Colloquium, and made a ... : Perhaps. Me: *gushing with thanks* Dumbledore: No problem at all. I sent ... nicely: “I am continually amazed at how personable the MIT professors are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... Erich's photography business. He said he was filling up terabyte drives at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... away at it every night. I'd write essays in marathon non-stop sessions ... , you become a lot better at planning and working in teams. You gradually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got ... pulling an all-nighter). I have been awful at starting assignments early

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  so that they can see what cool opportunities await them at MIT. This ... had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and ... . Friday morning I woke up at 7:00 after having gone to bed at 4:30 (PSETs

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the ... summer things. But now I stand at an awkward place where I don't really ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at ... gotten worse at it. It feels strange, thinking that I went through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... walks can really help, but be careful if it is late at night. A long walk through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... Boston Public Garden. Fog on the Charles River at sunrise. Crossing the ... , and the quiet, empty night. Biking at sunset with my dad and my brother

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... around here, and for the hard stuff, they're really good at it. The more ... the people eating lunch at Subway next to me are future Nobel Laureates

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009