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• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... . Going to the IOI, I would always be reminded about how much time the NOI.PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about time and how I’ve been spending it. Happiness and how people think about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... own, I thought this would be it. I’d have my own life, pursue my hobbies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... [/annotation] it’s so wild how mitski and i had the same exact mental breakdown in ... , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... processes. It's incredible how MIT supports all this in the first place, and I ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• 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 ... investigate or how long I would need to trace down different routes. My advisor ... where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;t know how much longer I would've lasted. Looking back, the only ... ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... Waterstones and bought I think five more. My favorites would be Lud-in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  how to spend my days in social isolation [annotation note="something i ... supposed to, last year; how would my life look? Would I be comfortably ... ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  on how I was doing even in semesters I wasn’t taking any of her classes ... how differently I would structure the book were I to rewrite it, but it ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... plastic tote in the background of my video feed. I am in the basement

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  in the morning, instead of asking math questions, I would say, ‘Look at ... would wander into my room to say hi and I’d jump about three feet in the ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ? I also don’t quite know what the future would be like for me in this ... ? Would I be happy working in finance? Right now, I think I have a decent ... . But in finance, I wouldn’t be able to work on any of that. While I would

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  this, but I would probably start here, or by getting in touch with ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011