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• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some ... 'm thinking it's a chihuahua...? i'm also slightly suspicious that this is fake ... . like, actually, this man is losing his damn mind in a way you have to see

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  resources to its students. There is a pressure to live up to its promise of ... upperclassman. You're seen as someone who's supposed to have it together. Truth is ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  . It is a good introduction to the topic. :’) Mister Nozick ... which is not really relevant enough to detail here, settles into its ... seizing people’s property and transferring it to others is morally on par

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... -prescribed: it is often the case that students here take on more classes, more

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... , especially since it came back sluggish, but I was still committed to resisting ... crap, which is irritating. Mostly I hate how delicate it feels. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics ... to write some big reflective entry before today but seriously, it's all ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... to fly yet). Since Corn Dog is so fast, we're anticipating doing ... thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT Aero

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ...   In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  . safety. It is up to you to create the categories and to be able to explain ... marbles this year. You know that it is important that you take proper time ... is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of help to others that read the Blogs. (If it is VERY specific to you please ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every ... .   Diagrams and Technical drawings If I had to pick, this is my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  become genuine. It is wayyyy to early in the morning to keep up a “oh hi ... you want to, but given you have to it is an amazing place to get some ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  of what research is and how it works. I learned how to read scientific ... problems it allows me to work on. Plus, to some degree, my happiness is ... will follow, for now. This is not useless realization. It allows me to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when ... snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  .01 to 8.01L, which is another introductory physics class. It's geared ... be optomistic); it didn't work for me. This is in no way trying to ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  full spreadsheet is linked here, but to expand on/summarize it: I spent ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... this is not one of those occasions. You know who I do bow down to? MY

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006