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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... to change it. The one thing it was missing, however, was the Silver ... ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  these, it’s hard to see the difference six years has made outside of, well ... 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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... connects it to fighting the administration (“Tear down the wall!”). She puts ... busy and wistfully looking around. I wonder if it would be weird to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  see you in the fall if you do choose to commit.   ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... ! if you prefer reading your information you can read the blog down below

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the rest of the world, and wonder what will happen to it if its children ... , with the energy and creativity to improvise if - when - something doesn ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... power in the airport went out as if to say, “Hey buddy, welcome home.” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China ... the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  no immediate safe space to go to if something bad happens (hence, the ... brain conceives. It’s called the gut-brain connection. It also explains ... the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  walking around the halls. It didn't have a mechanical effect in the game; if ... . But it felt so cool to do the hand movements when casting spells, and it ... from leaving Hogwarts. So if you wanted to go to the Whomping Willow, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  opinion, and my own moral compass when it comes to these issues. The "Facts ... now need to decide what you want. Obviously, the hard part is only if ... ). Some people do not, and may even wish to harm you, or even if it is not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  lottery; it seemed as if the majority of freshmen from my floor wanted to ... panels for us to paint on, but...it won't be the same. Preserving culture ... housing rates to Tier 1 ones. While it's certainly the case that we'd be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In either case, it generally doesn't matter if it's true, because the ... biggest players? Or the fastest? For a band why would it matter if you had

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  this project was to try and see how long the water source would last--if ... source, causing the first source you built to fail. Of course, there ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  the lab, suggested to me, “It would be cool if you could make this more ... until the wee hours of the morning to obtain last minute results. It was ... experiments to run, more ideas to try out on the off chance that it’ll make my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  . My depression made it a struggle to step one foot outside of the dorm ... communicate what was going on to the outside world. It felt personal and ... classes but I couldn’t bring myself to start it. How the scariest part was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  died, because I used to watch reruns of the 1980's Ripley's Believe It Or ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006