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• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... effects of not being stereotypically feminine, which in most cases was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... .  CASE's overall mission is to improve MIT's community awareness of class disparities

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

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

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

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

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

  

  of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020