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  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often describe their experience the same way. Even in the most difficult moments

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... explained in one of my earliest blogs, freshman Cami learned the importance of

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping ... hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... consumption over a month: they found that a net positive increase in movies per ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015