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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  . Feel free to request random things you'd like me to record, whether it ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  panels for us to paint on, but...it won't be the same. Preserving culture ... talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in the afternoon, we meet with our coaches to talk about our progress on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... this provides some insight on what it's like to take 6.08 at MIT!! The Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  for commenting on drafts. Thanks to Wayne for snarking on drafts, for context on comic book history, and for info on paid puzzlehunts. Thanks to ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  early on anyway, so you shuld always feel free to go to them. MIT Ombuds ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... character traits made it difficult for me not to negate. It's easy, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... , for free time and a carefree attitude to take me wherever. I’m exhausted ... on my internship for vital job experience, or how I’m probably going to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  stayed awake during naptime, sitting on my cot waiting for the others to ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  figure out where on this diagram we want to fall. But now, with a year into ... on a lot more groups projects, we'll be able to have more discussions ... math, we'd most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. HA, usually taking

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... of the struggles I had in leaving home and being on my own for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... – notifying us that there's free ice cream at the coffeehouse on the third floor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... mine. I had everything going for me and I knew it. That feeling ... unquestionable ability to thrive at MIT—lasted for maybe six weeks. Then, I hit the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you want to accomplish in your free time, whether it's for breaks or ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... , admission is free for MIT students -- so when we found out that they held ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  organized activities for the parents. Not wanting to take on responsibility ... free candy to people if they provide feedback about Splash. I stayed for ... ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019