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

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... wanted to take to see controls from the electrical systems point of view ... the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  look forward to at the start of a long weekend: to settle down with old ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  ?” I asked.  Erin, the head of Software, nodded. “Do you want to join ... presenting to all of the staff.  [carousel image1="95388" image2 ... ="225"] CAD model of the final version of Contour[/caption] Back to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... and talked my way into a free waltz lesson, and I went to the middle of ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... the company of others later. 20) Social media is a strange space to ... responsibilities, but you don't have to lose your sense of wonder and excitement. The

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to pleasure) because of the definition of happiness used; see below ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good ... during the times of slavery, only to realize they could not understand the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  friend who was running, and we went out in the dead of night to hang it in ... extended the days of my life where I didn’t have to try to [annotation note ... to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university ... for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... came to MIT, diversity was one of the first things I noticed. I remember

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  what the ethical and right thing to do is.  What is one of the hardest ... that the tools we needed in order to pull off the dream version of the ... ’ve constantly felt the pressure to make the most of every opportunity available

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  that I managed to pull through, thanks to the work of Wayne Z. ’23 and ... are gay the gay heart is made of many fruit seeds i will have to admit ... out of material to fill up a haiku with, rip the roof off your house

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... stays, and my job was to take care of the place and the garden, milk the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  the class if this was the kind of work I thought was acceptable to hand ... . After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had ... swagger of someone accustomed to believing they were one of the smartest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  -hour class dedicated to analyzing the soundtrack of the video game Celeste ... so much that had to be done before the day-of. After teachers submit ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... had an answer to my friend’s question, I think the question of “what do I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... education." —Robo-CJ putting a paintbrush to the eyes of the world's greatest ... epic journey, akin to the experience of a full-fledged a Castlevania game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020