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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  -life problems is hard. Anyway. Alan: We got down to Ashmont and then transferred ... minutes later. Then we transfer to a train headed inbound. We sit on the ... . One of the smoothest transfers I’ve ever had on the MBTA. We then got to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  around the dorm Causes include: -Wanting to give as much time and energy ... orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I ... problem is not necessarily that you need to work "harder". Organic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  's used to do parametric designs. But, where to start? First, you need ... don't need to have every single component. Spice Blends, S oregano ... , then transfer to a large sheet pan. When the oven is done preheating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of ... that’ll let you walk away without too much crisis.) You don’t have to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... up to orientation and all the Adult things I needed to keep track of ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  unexpected four-figure bill shrouded in paperwork that needed to be paid ASAP ... enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... , but I want to focus my energy on one thing, and I want to build it up! I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about how miserable we both were. Something needed to change. Anything. We ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... need to find a better balance, something that I thought I had learned to ... perspective instead of that one? What does this color bring to the table over

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... hop the fence and bark at other non-numbered dogs. Dog 4 needs to be ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You ... area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... the extra marginal decisions that came with being poor, like needing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  self when everyone wants to reduce you just to this disease?" "What does ... -tailed kids you once sat next to in 8.02 suddenly have suits and job interviews ... think, and it's all of our lives that we need to think of as writers, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... 'm now down from six to five--and my life feels much more manageable. I ... was not ready to commit to this nonconformity. I needed to see more of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  -Stokes equation, while the girl next to you does quantum physics and somebody else ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... evolved need to consume nutritious minerals? In either case, the spacial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  I once burned out doing work for my student groups. Instead, I like to ... 'll never run again, there's no need to think about maintenance. But if you want to start an event that'll run every year, you need to think about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I ... listening to Taylor Swift and burning strawberries into our guitar the night ... and was waitlisted. Obviously, I was later admitted, much to my surprise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... you need to."  That's all common sense, but it was surprising how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  no one to help, much less care. But she did. Luke was grunting in pain ... :)[/annotation] Okay, I need to pick my high school for next year, [annotation note ... it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020