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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm ... make you smile on your worst days. 3) College isn't a magical place ... exploring. That being said, sleep is a wonderful thing that you shouldn't

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... tired, even if I haven’t done anything yet. It’s a different kind of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  experiences, to an improvised version of Hide and Seek. Around 9 A.M., we ... didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... feeling a little weird. I realized I couldn’t feel my heart beat, and for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are in any way spectacular or a "genius" of some sort, and aren't sure ... probably wouldn't do well but tried my best anyway. I started a water project ... to answer a lot of questions. But I know that I'm not afraid of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... traveling is eating alone. Somehow, food doesn’t taste as good when I’m dining ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  -branches, mechanisms, and implications. It’s also really important that you don’t have a ... there’s anything you don’t understand, a method or a term, immediately ... Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  walks in, four-foot-four in a big t-shirt; she starts digging around in a ... calling. I haven't blogged in forever. I need to reply to that email. I'm ... and the clementine I'm eating burns. My mother is a fish, Jewel

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  analysis of a morphological problem in a language I don't know, and I'm happy ... just an hour away, there doesn't really feel like a point to eating again ... questions have easy answers, but a lot of the answers are "we don't know yet

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  GOOD: There isn’t a huge variety of targeted machines, so this gym is ... gym doesn’t have a power rack or any other “heavy” forms of lifting ... deprioritizing my workouts. I guess it also helps that I’m more of a morning person

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  anywhere because you have a 2400. It doesn’t work like that. … And that ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... call. There were more than a couple technical difficulties, but I’m glad ... class today. I don't think he is real. Perhaps he was created by a robot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... quiet, humble city. When I first arrived, it didn’t take but a morning and ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental ... . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  mens et manus: mind and hand. It is a message stating that we don’t only ... , or [annotation note="this probably won’t work but maybe worth a shot ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... Jebby Every fall since 2014, Next Haunt puts together a horror ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  don’t think I’m afraid anymore, and the Red Line runs adjacent to a road ... . Because I’m a stubborn pedestrian, and because [annotation note="i’m ... doesn’t even look like much of a bridge outside of the fact that it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  everything, as there were a few gaps and front panel wasn't attached, so we ... team we’d ever work on, I didn’t believe him, but now I think he has a ... ="225"] assembly[/caption]   I really do feel like I’m losing a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  sensory bias (a.k.a. the steak I prefer the most)."]“best”.[/annotation] In ... good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020