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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  learn the material in your classes, but you will also learn how to manage ... will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... 't get to suspend disbelief anymore, when we live in an era where planes go ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... break! it is always tempting to take an extra day or week to cram in more

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... major in, what student groups and other communities to get involved in ... listing (a lovely modern apartment in Reykjavik) to get a better sense for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... how to spend my days in social isolation [annotation note="something i ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to anyone interested in God and staying connected to Christian ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... of the best things I’ve participated in since coming to MIT.   

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  figured out how to successfully achieve multiple "food systems" goals ... can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... have help, you still have to put in the work.  If you get to the place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014