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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... --assuming that they have the same potential to do and be anything they want, and the same capability to be amazing. From that, I learned that if you ask

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  during the times of slavery, only to realize they could not understand the ... the world tell you who you have to be and what it looks like to be ... dress if you want to fit in with the elite. The world will tell you, "oh

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  these months, work is hard enough to make me feel like I should be able to ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It ... 'm using my mentor time to figure out whether or not Microsoft is the place ... nothing when I look at the Course 6 catalog. Instead of being excited to

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

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... would be participating in RBA and wouldn't be allowed to move out. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some ... in my life. the food, not the LA) and then went back to the hotel lobby

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what ... as a primary contributor to the blogs, I will never stop writing! So ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  , six years have passed. In the last angles, the ones I try not to look at ... course, I know that’s not true, but it’s hard not to see the rosy idealized ... imposter, not in the way that plagues so many students here. Chalk it up to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... obvious now, but it will be someday. 50 Things supposedly still gets the ... content. I'm flattered but, to be clear, the best thing I ever did at MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix ... tripping up the stairs would be if you lost your laptop, and not just your ... not already important to you, it will become important to you. F

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... raised. To be humble towards the people back home who wanted to see me ... good, solid reasons why it’s earned this negative image, to the extent

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  not going to be the most helpful at Next Haunt. This was proven true ... would give us), so we needed to be extra speedy to solve all the puzzles ... managed to touch you, you would be “eliminated” from the game. (I later

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  and not interesting enough to be more than a parenthetical at the end of ... stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... enough to be used as a bouldering wall, and the routesetters used the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so ... activity, from writing on the school newspaper to being in student government

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  as they wanted, so some bloggers chose not to take some of the tests ... associated Hufflepuffs to be, so I do identify with the house. I also heard or ... would be interested to have somebody else take the test based on their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good ... .  These days, I’m using more targeted machines, so I’ll be headed to the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024