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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an ... yourself when I was deciding. Part of its thesis is that we are changed by ... commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  shaped by Nisha, which was never a bad thing, just frustrating. I ... I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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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.

  

  . I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... battery and regulated by an ADP171 voltage regulator. The rotary switch has

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... , breathe. Eat some ice cream. Distract yourself by marathoning your favorite

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... as the stars in the sky, accessible only by Matthew McConaughey via

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... diversity than what can be captured or satisfied by a simple check box. The

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  names nontrivially affect the names they'll be known by. Many interns end ... like idiots at Beast's persistent attempts to break the codebase by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty minutes by bike, faster than the Underground and way faster than the ... nickname department), but it's just so far from everywhere else. By the time

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  day last year I stumbled upon a giant outdoor dance party, put on by the ... ? What other questions are admitted students thinking about? (And by the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s was a funny amalgamation of flavors; my uncle’s was, by far, the ... ='defined as an "instance of extreme embarrassment caused by the introduction of ... immigrants, but that doesn't make it any less true. Prompted by the intense

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day ... 't let it break you down. Don't let yourself be defined by where you get ... ultimately enrich by being there." Eric '16 - "Rejection is tough. From a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... sustained by action, collective and individual. Sofia spoke on unity and ... panelists words together loosely, interrupted by my own. Below are some of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  keep asking myself is: what am I losing by not leaving? 2013-2014 has ... the last minute. I told myself I was frustrated by administrative and ... post by Anna, I knew what I needed. I needed change. Shaking loose and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a ... you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend ... : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  blissfully by our high school pool, basking in the afternoon sunlight ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible ... by side, sketching out future experiments in my lab notebook, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  probably get them then. If you're not traveling a long way, though, then by ... the Target in Cambridge (accessible by T, or that one-day bus trip) or ... cut by buying a cheaper PC laptop - for which there are 114,000 known

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  + while at MIT, none of these posts were written by LGTBQ+ bloggers about ... being "out" are not borne equally by all people. The point of this post ... definitively say that I felt personally attacked by their relatable content. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  around MIT, but nevertheless I stand by [annotation note="cj: it seems that ... in the picture."]chashu,[/annotation] noodles) made by hand from raw ... [/annotation] while you get distracted by psets, you’ll still end up with a [annotation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020