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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... day and we mused about how we'll never get a normal moveout. Last year ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... about how miserable we both were. Something needed to change. Anything. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... way related to differences in math ability, given that college

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify, and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  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 ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024