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Blog / How to Human
baby steps something tender and new
enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my ... whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way -
Blog / Challenges
Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.
TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often ... , unless you want to take 7.014 because you're a huge fan of ecology and -
Blog / Life after MIT
Full Circle Professor Anna
the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my -
Blog / MIT Life
5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief
TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for -
Blog / MIT Life
Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.
remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... importantly, give him something I'd wanted to give him since summer began. Our ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his -
Blog / Challenges
eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less
, where it's like, focus on a few things that are important to you ... programs with esp again, i'm on the gph writing team, i'm trying to keep a ... out, largely due to a stronger social support system, because god i love -
Blog / How to Human
bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real
college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a ... ’m still adjusting to this environment, but i don’t feel like a functioning -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones
Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... . 2:06 "MIT is very much a problem solving based approach to education ... professors. "There are two main ways to leave a legacy," they say, "I could -
Blog / Academics & Research
Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."
-day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... hopefully do lunch with a bunch of people to whom I haven't spoken since high ... 's a quiz on Wednesday that I really would like to do well on something -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.
important it is to have a deep and varied knowledge base and a solid grounding ... one another and want their school to be a very important school," she ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a -
Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.
start by acknowledging that if the most important thing to you is a ... deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this -
Blog / Academics & Research
My first real internship
resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed -
Blog / How to Human
Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion
crazy, but that makes it even more important to step away and take a break ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... that important stuff for such a great non-profit? Are you spending enough -
Blog / Events
The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!
weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so ... -- you have a lot more patience than I do! (I was threatening not to go to ... gave the guest address, and he gave us a lot to think about. My favorite -
Blog / MIT Life
What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.
's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share. I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all -
Blog / People & Identities
Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.
[annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand -
Blog / Academics & Research
High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.
few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... language lab, meeting with a fellow EC resident and software developer to put -
Blog / Admissions
October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.
size of the header corresponding to things of more subjective importance, here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to -
Blog / MIT Life
Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life
Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... wishes me a good day and departs. I am taken after all--betrothed to my