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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... curved end, I have the milk roll, and while you can’t see it, I put blue

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  note="Does it make it sound better if I say drizzled? I think it does ... bike. Now, eight weeks later, I can hop on the bike, and it takes me most ... the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  overkill. Or, I don’t know. We can talk about the spreadsheet later. Anyway ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan ... even I can run. CJ: Although I have seething hate for how slow the Green

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met

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

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  Nothing,” Owl City’s “When Can I See You Again?” Toppings: hot fudge, gummy ... somehow I can’t identify the memory I pulled the song from). Most of the ... challenge that I hadn’t tried before, even as a writing minor. You can get a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  simple path from A to B, from course 5 to course 9, but I don't think I can ... said, it's different for everyone. But I can say with certainty that all ... more I mean 1000+) here (see if you can find me!). Here's just a sample

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  . Today I feel how you feel. I don't know if I can still pass the class with ... either of those classes either. But there is nothing really I can do right ...     Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in Scheme, Java, C, or Assembly. I can wire some simple circuits (I bet I'll be better at that after 6.002) and solder. I can use a drill press, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just finish? Why can’t you just work? Why have you become so useless? I shudder

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a ... . But I've been learning there are some things you can't fight, like the ... , was "hugged my mother more." It's so true and now that I can't hug my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  laborer and consumer. Funnily enough, I think this idea also can extend to ... content warnings: suicide mentions 98 days. I think oftentimes it ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing ... , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... can coexist on the same timeline. Every time I board a plane, I can

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that ... ? john asked. you can't, i learned. and yet, we can work toward that ... working conditions better, so i can do work tomorow. instead of stubbornly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... are things we can do to mitigate cognitive exhaustion: I've blogged ... overtrain your brain as much as you can overtrain your body. I’ve done both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  reluctance I returned it. Friend: ...does Professor Dumbledore know William ... don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... things that I wanted because X, Y, Z person was why can’t I? Because I’m me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  decisions can be made. They can answer basic questions about “how do I choose ... question of what makes life meaningful] which I fundamentally don’t buy is ... many [annotation note="not me though, I am not sage"]sage upperclassmen

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021