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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  place, figuratively and literally, in every way that calls to you. To new ... (course 3) I am writing this story for Miss Lydia from my new apartment in ... ] as a software engineer at Hudson River Trading, a financial firm in New

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  time in the quiet company of your own mind. Look for new music. Read a ... people are often really scary, but important. I kept a list of new ... story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... House 4. During the fall semester, I spent nearly half my time in New ... beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘17 You are sitting in the courtyard. You check your email. New email to ... . Frobert ‘13 It’s your turn in Star Realms. You go to buy the Mech World, but ... turn in Star Realms. Fro buys that ship you wanted out from under you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  Comic book history Cultural legitimacy In practice Experience logistics In the flesh Holding candles Creative goods Feedback loops ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  home in new york?"]clear as day,[/annotation] part of me still doesn ... narrative. My internship in New York was recently cancelled, and to be honest ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  night in Boston. After getting new boarding passes, I then realized that ... so drunk that no hotel in New York would accept him, and he ended up in ... David buys some food. We take a seat and Jason spots us and sits in front

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  't buy is "having a major, measurable impact on the world in some way ... particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  remainders of sleepiness, but they fight back. Do you go in and buy something sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , 1994. It had already expired, and belonged in the trashcan, but somehow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015