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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ways to change your happiness: change your life, or change your mind. When the former is not possible because of circumstances outside of your control all we can do instead is change the way we think and go about those

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the ... prefrosh alike, the correct answer to that question is... "There is actually ... all. No, really. What you're going to do is take some reaction or some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  water, with the rational side of me giving way to trepidation. The bad ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’s still not a great way to “x-ray the ground” which is a silly question I ... , shallow layer close to the surface of the soil. This is very simple and ... many ways, this is the beginning rather than the end. The real goal of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• 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 ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... pretty dramatic. It was made even more dramatic by the fact that it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... : Person A: Pass the salt, please. Person B: Is your request a function of ... Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office ... don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... , however, that being the last person to leave is always difficult. And, sure

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to remember the Athena cluster combinations. Find your own best view of the Boston skyline; figure out the best way to get to your dorm to ... you at the printer right next to your class. Find creative ways to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day

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

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

  

  chart is by far the one with the most freedom, compared to, say, Physics ... (very long) post is organized by catalog year. Within each year, the ... I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the

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

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... ways to maneuver despite the constraints on available torque, by taking ... Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say ... is near and dear to my heart. You're right, there isn't any particular ... all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015