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  bye (for now)

  

  weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... really understand why it is such a hard question to answer. but maybe this ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... , but I want to focus my energy on one thing, and I want to build it up! I ... it to you to decide whether that's a subtle or profound change. This

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  question to ask is "why no research from MIT?" I am not saying that it is ... . Keeping these points in mind, is it possible to succeed at being premed at ... use your years at MIT to figure out about what it is about healthcare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... don’t have the energy to do things, it’s okay if I take breaks, it’s ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  feel like everything else is more important. Your body needs energy to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home ... . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... . Now it’s your turn. Here is where Random Hall is: If you’re an MIT ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You ... by trivia.” A third reason it's hard to manage decision fatigue is

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... that become your closest friends. This is life- it’s messy, unexpected ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  this year's Hunt logistics, compare it to how a movie is developed and ... 're doing a puzzlehunt," which is a strong enough narrative to stand on its ... ASA. If it sounds like a lot, that's because it is. To be clear, this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I use to force myself to learn. I hope it is anyway. # I’m used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  took the elevator to the new room, which is in 5 East. It’s a rather ... convenient, I thought, for me to forget. Ten. This is what my door looks ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  have had vast opportunities to learn. It is a great environment. It is ... as I ever was. Within these walls it is safe to be in love with the ... Challenge, which is a meta-start-up—that is to say, it’s a start-up accelerator

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  station is right across the Longfellow Bridge from MIT. It was…so nice to ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  yes to every opportunity you have. But it is imperative that you say yes ... life - is to close off opportunities for spontaneous serendipity. It ... , somewhere off stage left. All you have to do is keep the energy going. Keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... emergency. You see it right in front of you, but your brain is unable to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  not as if it’s his first book and he is dying to have an undergraduate ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011