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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  throughout the day. But if I’m scared of nothing like I say I am, why does ... bad – "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," The Narcissist Cookbook I know I usually ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... studies the development of several different types of neurons in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  spring was essentially the time where all of the good things I got from my ... perspective instead of that one? What does this color bring to the table over ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... important as you navigate the next four years. I hope that some of them are

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... milestone was a physical model of the laser cutter for technical review. We

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... would, I decided to use these results to predict the number of units I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  a good while. In the meantime, I get some pictures of the trains that ... reference in this post and neither of them have been good."]The Schuyler ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing ... emulate the creative expression of a robot, directly making their actions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 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 different, both in [annotation note="the width of the charles varies wildly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... . “It’s a remember things thing.” It keeps track of recipes, finances, the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  surrounding BC, there wasn't a good deal of traffic in the channel. Even so ... =" presumably to address our concerns in a lack of divide between the two sides of ... of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020