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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  past ten days or so, as I finished up my finals and packed up my bags to ... ," or something like that. So much of writing - and blogging, especially ... It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  overall direction. I have lunch with people in my lab and attend talks or ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that reference individual hacks here, and one or two that have talked ... If you've never seen "Hackers" then you're depriving yourself and ... be Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). This

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  make or choose your own tenets—but here are three tenets which I try and ... The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  till senior year or beyond and you’ll be surprised how differently you ... -down economics works, or a plethora of other popular policies and beliefs that, at ... as Peer Ears, Pleasure educators, or Lean On Me, and so many others. If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ) and ask. Anonymously or not-anonymously. The reason people there have ... ’m needed and necessary for all the things. Because I don’t need my value or ... those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  fail and learn and grow into the person you want to be! Or don't, but ... quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  in a circle or similar parabolic shape which felt kind of warm and ... exactly why it’s important to know about depression, and how to live with or ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had

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

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  little bit more so: And the 15 or 20 that followed took me all sorts of ... social or political science. And the personal appeal of mathematics - well ... major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . sheet metal can be cut and textured into leaves (or cacti, or, as a grad ... .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  from the results, and whether or not you proved your hypotheses ... , or things that you didn't quite get to Conclusion and Future Work ... * strict page limits, and certain formatting or syntax errors can get you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make ... resenting, or the shame and self-doubt that comes with quitting something that ... is unchanged? Would I be furloughed, or worse laid off, and have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020