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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  the magic happen. It’s the place where I can graduate today and know ... memories at MIT, I can’t avoid thinking about moments walking down the ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... 're not in the best state of mind. Growth, where we learn how we can best ... 's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  from idleness. My thought process went as follows: I can either not buy food and do my work, or I can buy food and... probably still do my work ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... their final album, Made in Heaven, which I own. I own pretty much all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  getting better at writing,[/annotation]and I can see[annotation note="in ... situation. What if this went wrong? "Well, I can solve that problem in this ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  , why can't I?). Also that night, I found my bike... parked in the exact ... icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go ... into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  undergraduate can get a meal plan regardless of where they live. The final section ... meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions ... celebrity drop-ins (and I doubt Tyra Banks or Robert Plant will visit Senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  write this I am at home, in the living room. The living room is where I ... in the same lab where I did my master's (the iconic Sabeti Lab), during ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a ... . Divine Blogging Inspiration at 5am sucks, because I should be in bed. Every

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very thoughtful person, not in the sense that I have good thoughts, but because I am

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. So, in a fairly literal sense, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  , departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you live can strongly ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple syrup. Bite me. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  still like a cold, dry, plain sandwich. There are no Publixes where I can ... songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree. ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012