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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... morning. By the evening, the email is sent out and forwarded around until ... . By the end of the camp, we feel like we have succeeded; our director

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  mood until I’m completely soured and stressed by bed time. Even though ... initially, I’d been quietly upset by that. I felt like my stride was being cut ... , to shifting my computer screen by 1-2 degrees. I keep my camera on in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each ... the week went on, more precautions were taken. By Wednesday, instead of ... problem set. I cleared my inbox. I refilled my meds. By all measures, I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  rode their coattails by Psetting together and not really learning the ... ."]Outfinite[/annotation]and had hundreds of students in it, taught by some of the most well known ... .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the ... growing (it's okay to fail) My sophomore fall was by far my most difficult ... my relationships, both platonic and romantic, by taking out this anger

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  business by employing kids from school or some new shoe design you are trying ... home. You know everybody by name and are always trying to uplift people ... still being shaped by Atlanta, both the good and the bad. But that being

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  affected by not only logistics, weather, and funding, but also politics ... : Children (as young as 5) are the ones who fetch water Children, followed by ... how children can fall or be pulled into shallow wells by the weight of

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a ... by what happens (at MIT in particular) when people are supportive and ... was a clear example of peaceful protesting she felt was ignored by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to ... called The Disenchanted, written by one of the people who worked on the ... black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Seven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... most direct ways people can make each other’s lives better is just by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  by an MIT professor on MIT students). People are willing to pay just to ... went down by a lot), but it’s not quite the same."]only become coherent ... Designing Your Life, written by two people who teach about design at Stanford

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  fencing practice and passing by the Building 34 lobby: in normal times, the ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  . And by age thirty, we would make six-figures annually; we would have a ... , the glass blotted by raindrops. Massachusetts Avenue was nothing but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects ... mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  two hours of work. And while I had all of Wednesday past 4:30pm, by ... by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  screen, and it just feels like us, side-by-side, talking. And maybe you ... the distance, and the screen, and it just feels like us, side-by ... distance, and the screen, and it just feels like us, side-by-side, talking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  "What Work Is" by Philip Levine. it's a poem that is about love as work

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  with them. Love, Ceri Also, this video was inspired by Emily Diana Ruth

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  magazines. But by recognizing that introversion is an irremovable part of me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012