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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  'm always intrigued by the similarities and differences in our experiences ... became busy with our own lives and with growing into our own individual ... for his drink too. Our drinks came out at the same time and he went to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  (or something similar) and usually they’re happy to help you. Your ... you have leadership roles and/or are actively involved in all of them ... -crisis-but-not-really you can talk to them and they will help you refine or mitigate your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a ... ”, and tenere, meaning “to hold” (the same root as “maintain” or “tender

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  one of them or whatever and ugh, anyway this is why I have not written ... , right here on the blogs. Living our socially ordinary and sometimes ... some gay event. And I didn't find very much, or really anything at all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  still knew that queerness invited violence, and even holding hands or ... no longer a defining characteristic of our lives, and that was ... , or aro, and I've met lots of trans and non-binary people

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -looking zombie wearing a pigeon mask burst into the room and split our team in half ... people do Next Haunt in groups of five or six). Jebby and Aiden were ... would go on Ellen or Jimmy Fallon and do a horror escape room and just

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• 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.

  

  and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... 37 each at our little telescopes looking at stars, planets, and ... to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  astrophysics (I still pursue it as a hobby), or if had taken up Biology and ... different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... students, affectionately known as the Z']Zesiger Center[/annotation] and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  here or there, some of it was scripted and some of it was just saying ... of day-to-day kindness and stimulating conversations (or any ... lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and started work/research the next day! Sounds exhilarating and somewhat

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  died or gotten injured from falling into said shallow wells and from ... mineral water: possibly calcium and magnesium deposits, or other inorganic ... ” or “I don’t have the time” or even as basic and seemingly valid as “I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  for spring semester and beyond. A cursory application of our discussion ... and two minors and no decisions made. Our discussion in Act II tells me ... principles, and that we must instead find our way by making small decisions

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what ... befriended Mikey, Julian, and Savoldy, Eva was now fully part of our friend ... 'd turn 18 or whatever and just suddenly know how to do my taxes. Or I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  to school and for what, or where to go to work and on what. In making ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all, that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022