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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... even I can run. CJ: Although I have seething hate for how slow the Green ... ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  taste in music, and I can tell you about all my favorite artists. Maybe ... , you can see above that I'm in Courses 18 and 6-3, which are Mathematics ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  meetings with the faculty. Now, I know how easily gossip can get amplified ... like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... 't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  little thing known as "reality."  I can't help feeling that in some ways ... a week goes by that I don't think how grateful I am that I can afford ... enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... retrospect, I can understand why she'd reacted like this. How could I have felt ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005