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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... ). Here is how I went about obtaining my data: I deleted spam and emptied ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  know if these programs would run in the fall, let alone how they'd be run ... . Would there be student check-in or teacher check-in? How do we communicate ... people in ESP, checking in on me, asking how I was doing, both from the day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• 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 ... .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... because of, or in spite of, MIT)? How will MIT change? I guess we’ll see ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... ’t even know how I was doing in the class beforehand. I emailed my TA from ... letter,[/annotation] which makes me question how badly I would’ve done if I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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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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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... non-checked-in-bags onto the conveyor belt that would glide through the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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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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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• 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
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from ... notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010