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

  

  at seemingly random moments. Yet still, I’m faced with the dread of ... Everybody, its me [USERNAME] I'm just introducin' myself here! I am a thirteen ... decide."]and I'm in a dilemma.[/annotation] Should I go for the school that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about, which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I’m ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for ... element I’m usually concerned with is [annotation note=" I would say shape

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... ']a different activity I’m part of[/annotation]when the email comes through

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  further back until I had to deal with them. Look, see, I’m writing the blog ... is ending too soon. I want to be sad because I’m being left alone ... . I’m missing memories, I’m missing emotions. But I’m not missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  mystical gods, talk about why they chose their majors. Then, around six p.m ... experiences, to an improvised version of Hide and Seek. Around 9 A.M., we ... greater pleasures and I’m constantly in discovery mode. Please e-mail me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I’m ... needlepoint portraits of people’s dogs!  She then goes on to say, “But I’m not really mechanically adept. I’m really wanting to learn those skills!”  And

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing--I’m ... how the semester will go, about which classes to take. I'm still trying to answer a lot of questions. But I know that I'm not afraid of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  grown in my academic realm, and now I'm feeling the time limit before graduation sink in. Now that I'm finally mastering MIT's intensity and becoming ... I'm irrationally nervous about (or maybe just unnecessarily dreading

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  moon, painted by Sean M. ‘08. The original photograph was taken by ... whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head ... really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I'm ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I’m ... administering the experiment about UROPing. The response was, in sum: "I'm from ... interview: as far as I'm aware, most UROPs require some kind of interview. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS concentration. Mostly I put my literary energy into blogging instead - although I'm ... habit of pointing out things I otherwise would have overlooked. I'm only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  think still now I struggle with this. I'm often unsatisfied with the ... loans worked. But now that I'm deep in the throes of apartment hunting ... place to get some (training wheels) life experience and I'm grateful for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  M. '97, Ariel S. '04, E. Rosser '12, and Krue '14. This is a rerun of ... taped in hidden places. And I'm talking small, like 1cm × 5cm. They could ... . When given a character's goals, I'm less interested in why I have these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  should’ve been done. Besides the could’ves and should’ves, I’m just an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  the life around them while they could. Now that I’m a senior, living in ... career paths I choose to go down. It’s about the people I’m around, the way ... ’s my future that I’m worrying about. It makes sense to be stressed. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  call. There were more than a couple technical difficulties, but I’m glad ... control your emotions and make you hate everyone but today i learned that i'm ... to-do's after tomorrow i'm running out of time, all my work is behind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... any part of it! I'm also a big fan because of how many vegetables I can ... you can recreate some, if the math isn't too confusing. Either way, I'm

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019