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  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... internship rejection emails. I talk about how much I love my friends, or how ... could. But they would miss me if I did. But they knew it was what I needed

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... year I would also be an active member of LuCHA, the Latin Students' Union ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... I thought I knew. I wondered who, and how, and why. A set of things ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... our COVID test, etc. etc.. But I wasn't nervous at all. I knew how

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers ... just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how much I would've liked this, I would've joined earlier, or, if I knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  putting bad special effects on them. I would also usually try to find ways ... “wahhhsahhhhp” and I would laugh at them for their antics. One day after school he ... enemies and wore bandages for pants. On Minecraft I would stay up till 5 a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... ridiculously high IQs. I’m not sure that it would be good if genetic engineering

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... . How’s 7:00 tonight? Trash, trash, trash. Yeah, well, I think you

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  highlighted how incompetent I was. It hit me hard. I had worked extremely hard ... big difference. When I greet someone and ask how their day is, instead ... class would solve all of my problems; they kindly suggested that I seek

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ask the seniors I knew what they were taking, and would often be ... their requirements done. I thought that most people would want to take a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  until I asked my mom how she was doing multiple months later. I didn ... on and on about how they did so much for me growing up. But frankly I ... about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... through space and time toward to meet me. I think about how this year's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  of how things were playing out. I remember, during IAP (Independent ... the people I would work with. Many of the latter became the former (MIT students would utter the words trauma bonding, I won't go that far

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... years, I think. How long before both subjects become General Institute ... history-wise than World War I. Consider, for example, Building 20. It would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  , excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... , no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... . And I totally get your "poet" vs "peasant" analogy... people would talk

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008