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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... leaving home for the first time, growing older, or just generally maturing ... ’ll never know the counterfactuals. There’s no alternate-universe-self for me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  this medium has the power for real social impact, through identity ... 's, because lecture for both classes was not helpful (because of a combination ... usually going through the material too quickly, at least for us). For 6

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

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... can’t remember what it stands for anymore, but still you whisper it. IHTFP. excalculus ‘15: You ask your bio major friend for some help

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... . For once, I didn’t want weird. The cold wind bit through my sweater, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Victoria Secret was having for their collegiate Pink! line. They had a list of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight ... posted for privacy reasons someone who dressed up as a microwave chip ... the day someone dressed up as a corona beer who was too far away for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... because this class is really relaxed – it’s just not possible for my stress

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021