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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  been extremely difficult, in ways that I both could and could not foresee ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... said it out loud, it was, in many ways, a last supper of sorts. We packed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... that way -- I spent my gap year frolicking about the countryside, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your ... ). Online dating apps are a great way to expand your social circle beyond the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... . In many ways, this year especially, I became a sort of halfway graduate ... walking motion, and looks way more like a natural human gait than Asimo does

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

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  specific technical configuration (the way an abstract process is practiced ... call it that) works the same way. I begin each academic year anticipating ... usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  before the big event. I made sure to bring my ticket with me: On my way ... way into the auditorium (after three ticket checks) and towards the ... , right? Right. After two hours of waiting, I made my way to my seat. A

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . "MIT students are way smarter than me... I must've gotten in by accident ... the problem in a way that took 20x longer than it should have and said ... came to MIT, and seriously, I probably had way more fun than I was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , easily found a way into my heart. in our meetings throughout my first ... “there are so many ways to be a spider”.[annotation note="adam told me ... mentors to my naive frosh self, and constantly looking for ways to improve

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... costumes along the way. [carousel image1="105167" image2="105166" image3

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  . [...] I supposed that queer people of the past must have found other ways to ... people who were strong or brave in the way they lived their lives and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
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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.

  

  the kitchen, now in an even more Russian way, toasting the lives we ... bad things we were leaving and the good things to come. In a way my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  whole picture. The way that students identify or categorize majors and ... , it is a reinforcement of the way they see themselves. Certainly major

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thanks to Eric ‘16 who pushed me the whole way). Not only was it great fun ... great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  are an MIT student, you check your email compulsively. It's the only way ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I ... to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  : Yesterday, my boyfriend and I rented a Zipcar. We were way out in Weymouth ... way, congrats if you got in! Come hang out with us for CPW!)

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  off that way regardless.) I'm Cam, your newest (and slowest, but I ... (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  time without, um, losing control and ending up sliding down the hill way ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  , and one in kinetics. Because of the way the courses are structured (no ... depending on what your professor asked you to do. Either way, you're going to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  some people feel it. It just is that way to some people, and it's not that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... assume that other people's brains work the same way. We can communicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021