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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... Nothing,” Owl City’s “When Can I See You Again?” Toppings: hot fudge, gummy ... side chants “Bexley!” as the lawn empties. In the silence I notice that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  little thing known as "reality."  I can't help feeling that in some ways ... enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... in my closet, in my room in East Campus, while I did zoom school from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  remain in memories once it's done. I personally can't empathize with this ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... with the Mystery Hunt, or puzzlehunts in general. In this post, I'll go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... im trying to run to my room so i can cry in the [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my ... keeps talking about? Where are the hours in the day where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact ... scale. People ask where I see myself next if now isn’t desirable. Honestly

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... [annotation note="Typing why like this reminds me of Christian school where I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... be careful where I spend my spoons. The backlog can wait. That's why it ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  classes where I can’t actually apply the material or don’t feel motivated ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... 't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011