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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... is a village in Kaffa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. I went there several times ... had neither of these. I discovered that in truth, you do not have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  ). I decided not to do that problem set Freshmen year is all about trying ... remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I'm even there is astounding, the fact that I'm passing classes is ridiculous

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  medical school in the world knows that MIT is a tough place, and that ... Rice (disclaimer: I *do* think the Rice-Baylor program is still awesome ... is most worried about: will I be able to maintain a high GPA at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  describe our process, I often do so as "incredibly inefficient in a way that ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an ... the Holocaust in all its gory detail- all I knew was that it was a war ... times I ended up in a class that was way over my current capabilities

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... , and Oniongate was a horrible incident that happened a few days ago. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... say with confidence that this is a peaceful and loving city. When I ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... summer, I'm sharing a flat with two Canadians, two Frenchmen (is that ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  sense of the word. (I’ve heard that if CPW is like a tangerine, REX is ... -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... is playing that I will forever associate with being a freshman (though

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my ... , because that's what I do when I'm feeling melodramatic (or feeling, in ... sorry to inform you, we already are.” Everything I am doing is a dream

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... that eight hours of sleep is a crucial part of keeping myself happy and ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought ... human and alive in a way that those exurban towns, beautiful though they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... and brightest... and I'm a bit worried that I'm not as bright and shiny ... . And I've never done any of that... I'm basically a kid who likes math

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had ... afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... understand that yes I do in fact have ADHD, and no I'm not taking advantage of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of ... Harvard, Wellesley, Babson, Tufts, (and a bunch of others that I’m probably

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  now, I recognize that this is a temporary feeling, and in a few weeks I ... here? Do I deserve to be here? How does this reflect on me as a person ... people in ESP, checking in on me, asking how I was doing, both from the day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020