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  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i wrote a really long post, which is now my longest post on the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... whether a piece of writing is beautiful or not) is derived from that first

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I think this is a really fun alternative way to spend IAP! (and Reason ... . The Japanese cell phone is a fusion between a high-def digital camera, a ... ) = a couple of steps? 13. Sorry for mentioning the subway so much - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  much about the school as possible, how having a constantly changing website is interesting and raises the number of applicants, and how Web 2 ... FAFSA has a mascot and I met it. It's strange though, we wondered how

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is ... store Adam's planes. This one, in A Entry, is more a place to eat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  background and how much time you have to devote to the class! A relevant ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... , and homework is often weighted equally with exams. As a whole, homework

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  Spinning Arts is a club on campus that teaches students how to spin things ... challenging and interesting because it is the perfect sweet spot between a novel ... much experience and her expertise really is demonstrated through her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... who is happy to have sex with you whenever you think that’s a good idea ... lol. So how are things with you today." "But here is where the superego

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... life, even if it encompasses so much right now. The truth is that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural defense against predators -- since it is a large prime number, no potential ... cuisine is? Well, hot dogs, duh. It's not a barbecue without hot dogs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  papers with other students is fun! Figuring out how to make a proof ... engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... is going well. My mentor is knowledgeable and I’m learning a lot about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  workin vibes[/caption] Words can't express how much I enjoy living in this ... about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... are exec members of various clubs. Living in a house is entirely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  how I had really become a bitch. Or how I was always angry all the time. Or how I should simply "care less." I think this is the same mentality ... instead have started laughing more. Is this a good thing? Unsure. I think I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  . We knock on what we think is the door; a woman surfaces and tells us we ... there. It's dark and a little cold, although a little is gradually making ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the ... not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass ... . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room ... questions, and try not to make really dumb[annotation note="A neg is when you ... things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... is dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which means that it helps

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... means psets, a midterm, a final, and daily lectures. The pace is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019