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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... ’s horn. Then it hit me. Snow! I was so excited I made my roommate stay up

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  prepared for the day, showing up is often a much better choice than the ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... when you want to switch it up and hang out with people you don’t see

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds ... the following lessons about life: Focus on the shot you’re lining up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... :45am second alarm (actually wake up) 9:17am get out of bed 9:27am realize ... hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  class to study for another, never stayed up for hours and hours to squeeze ... LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we ... corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• 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 ... ultrasound guidance, and sew up the females. A few days later, we collect the ... I was at MIT, I cheered for four years and was captain for one; this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  subsidizes public transit passes by up to 50%. An unlimited one-month pass for ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... guarantees on-campus housing to undergrads for eight semesters, I was under no

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align ... explore, but tell me not to sign up for too many things, else I end up ... . There are tables in Lobby 10, and it’s common for organizations to set up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... PICTURE with them. Sign up for the List Art Gallery's artwork lottery

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  , I’m not coming back until I’m home for good. That means I end up ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  discussed these issues for hours on end, trying to come up with some unified ... different. For example, one discussion that came up was whether to allow ... academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • May 28, 2021
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  ? Immediately after the wrap-up, people started a Discord server for people who ... philosophical goals and target metrics. "Fun for all teams" ended up being the ... , really deserve the credit for coming up with many of the ideas. It was Rob

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... ;Sign up for the Erasmus Student Network and request a ESN mentor buddy!  Through the University of Zürich Language Centre, sign up for a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018