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  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  came, it was gone, and I was left to plod my way through a weird liminal ... , truly, is no right way to do things alternate title: I can’t have ... that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  this way—like Michelle, who asked me to contribute to her science writing ... , but it became a fantastic way to attract likeminded people. (As an ... about this when none of us were studying geology. The way I figure it, if

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  still list physical attributes or body parts, but in a way that either ... demeaning way of doing so, that is. Or maybe I'm reading too much into this ... sleep tonight is not going to come easy   the way the bedsheets

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand ... calculus. But there are similarly interesting ways to understand our world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  something transformative about making art in a group, about the way the voices ... exactly the escape which brings us into that calm headspace. It is the way ... for the writing major. In many ways, I am living a double life, taking

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  -school self to at least attempt to learn quantum physics, and see the way that ... "]8-Flex[/annotation] plans. The way that the flexible major works is ... course 8. Of course, physics is impractical, in a lot of ways. Things like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  's comforting, in a way – when things can't get worse, it means they can only get better. I would take my final, one way or the other, and that would be the ... , away from Boston, even. Two thirds of the way through a semester is a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  appreciated the way it was taught: the [annotation note="Michael Williams ... careers, and maybe have some fun along the way. Working this internship not ... govern everything in a way that we mostly understand, even if we have

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... , so I catch the sunset on my way out. Some of the sunsets have been ... walking. I passed through Arlington first, and then Lexington. On my way, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  alive for about two years. I did theater, which saved me in a lot of ways ... the first time in my entire life. I got into MIT, booked a one-way ... it exists, at least not in the clean, sequential way I want it to. The

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  back to the early 1600s, way before Newton’s time. The birth of calculus ... discovered to a supreme being in some way. Freethinkers did not believe in the ... Newtonians’ way of tying their scientific beliefs to religion. In fact, they

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... , etc. in our mouth. There are other ways to categorize. How can we tell ... next time.) Vowels Vowels are categorized in several different ways as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  comforting to hear German, the same way I find it oddly comforting to hear ... -consuming occupation like research can sneak its way into becoming the sole way you judge ... their way into my room, via a zillion mailing lists). But I’ve taken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... 'm excited about the potential opportunity. I stopped at Au Bon Pon on the way ... went on my way to my meeting with Laura from Student Support Services. On

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  your way home from Boston Logan, it’s free. I Instagrammed the trip back ... is the desolate industrial wasteland that is Silver Line Way. Luckily ... Hall. We seem to be going the right way. Follow the stairs on your right

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  efficient way to score points is to do laps on the extremely steep 60 degree ... their robots as well. If there's a wrong way to do 2.007, it's to approach ... fast in 2.007.  That's the way it's designed: even though you're building

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  ! I traveled all the way to California to visit my boyfriend, Herbert M ... , we went on our way. Not before taking a picture in front of the NASA/JPL sign, though. After visiting JPL, we hurried on our way to take a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  ?" Whenever someone asks me about this I always remember Connie's post from way ... building is open 24/7 to students (and if a door's locked, there are ways ... isn't the most optimal way to get a UROP, because these are the hardest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  sprinted all the way back to New House, and up the stairs home. There, I ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for ... you are, but thank you!*) we made our way through the five floors of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... (really!), but I really have no better way to begin this so here goes: I ... . 31131211131221. MIT will completely revamp the way that you think about science. On

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009