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  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... to cure cancer / creating the renewable energy systems of the future ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  before it. I actually feel so close to this team. I have so much warmth and ... the experience so much better because I got to know my team and feel ... does work for me.  I also want to learn more EE and CS now! And I have 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , and did much to quell some lingering doubts about whether I belonged ... paradoxical need to preserve their happiness. And how much truth should ever be ... player and rock out to P-Square and Styl-Plus, two of my favorite Nigerian

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  4 PM and stayed until 2 or 3 AM. To be clear, I spent this much time ... too much. Some random quotes and pictures that I don't have time to ... joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... ="Funny story actually: it was during recess when I tried to jump and touch the ... completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  test once. I cried about it and then I went to La Verdes and bought a ... , subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , will do, for you, and learn to appreciate them every day. Life is much ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... present, have identified as LGBTQ+, and were able to be open about their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still ... and see the scrawled marker: “Halfway to Hell.” You turn and look back ... there. You wake up to your alarm in bed and go to your first class. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... prone to accumulating indigestible dirt and debris, which makes them more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... , and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my ... many of my friends were going, and to which I had already submitted a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... , as I was trusted with more responsibility, and had the skills to take ... by sifting through (loads of) academic journals, how to find and study

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018