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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  to where they are without hard work and plenty of struggles. Always ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I ... blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... stops to consider where the boundary lines are drawn and questions what ... As you may know, this summer we are redesigning MITAdmissions.org. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... perfect to me: my favorite activities are writing and teaching, I love all ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ’s words from the night before: “There are 12 million undocumented people in this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I ... undocumented people living in the United States, many more are safe now than were

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  interacted virtually. But that's what it felt like nonetheless. Where are you ... Hunt 2022, which are unmarked. This post has spoilers for some puzzles ... 's oldest, largest puzzlehunt, an event where hundreds of teams, with sizes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  trusting/hoping/believing that doing those things are going to get me where I ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... summer are: The Name of the Wind, The Sword of Kaigen, Tomorrow and ... easy go-to’s are the following, in case anyone needs some inspo

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  because we are reserving our cognitive capacity for where it counts most ... followup question about where or what I would like to eat, brightly rattling ... indeterminacy, passed by before my friend tentatively asked "hey - are you okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... community where academics were not what was valued. She was passionate about ... MIT's average scores, and some I made a strong case for, and others I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are ... strips are taken from the webcomic minus; this is strip 8.[/caption] After ... -style keybindings. I made it because I got frustrated with all the existing solutions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times ... fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at ... impenetrable as always. If it's understanding where the emotions came from, then ... , there's just lots of people. But if you're surrounded by people who are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  stringers are made from [annotation note="and expensive"]long[/annotation] 2x ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... on top of the blocks. This was where our first wood cut inaccuracies

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I ... 'm thinking about are all the people that have touched my heart here, and how

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Campus Historian, there are some different angles and perspectives which ... dorms are all on the western half of campus. There are reasons for the ... made to build more undergraduate housing (that is, East Campus), it was

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  which made it enjoyable. Also, babies are cute and kids are silly so it ... graphs were made by [annotation note=" check out his last blog post on ... people submitted and tried to label common reasons. Some are relatively

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  explicitly marked otherwise. Any opinions expressed are our own, and are not ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... field of software engineering, which are the predominant type of internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  knowledge of bay area geography was made flimsier by the fact that we were on water. i made out bridges, but i didn't know which they were. we kept our ... straight line. If your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them. Creating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022