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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to split a $3 book of stickers or temporary tattoos with some friends ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... to someone else. I hope spending some money on some of these things, or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  amount of research involved. But, thank you, Google Books for not forcing ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... from 1-100, trying to guess 90% of the average” and “Choose the least

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... , lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... tend to stick around longer than anyone expects. Consider the ESP website

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  to force him to go to Stanford over Yale. He has a host of other ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... ."  They got a bunch of volunteers to come on stage, and made them cry ... end of the ceremony, I got to stand up and take a bow - and was awarded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005