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• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... for this, and an MIT committee for that. I have a work standup, a sync ... to hop on a call? Most of my meetings are for a purpose and manage to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  singing group within Next House! Our main goal for the group was for it to ... actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning, I hardly realized what she roped me into being co-president for. I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  strongest friendships. For example, I met my best friend (hey Alex!) four ... there for the best and worst times. People want to know you. Because that ... for others to know us, we need to be vulnerable so others will do the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  -in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a ... . 16 events in 3 days. We’ve been planning for months. And as our CPW ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... ’s luxurious Institute mattress for the pure joy that is throwing together a ... waste time searching for like the freshman that you still feel like most

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year ... 's how Commencement went for me. Because I wasn't graduating this year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  during Convocation four years ago. Tomorrow they will gather together for ... * humane, capable *and* considerate, etc. the ring is not necessary for this ... .   This is still true for me; I hope it will be true for the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... , in spreading the message that Many Things Are Arbitrary. For one thing ... your life plans or self worth on it. For another thing, whether you end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with ... acquired by Broadcom for $1.24 billion. The competition occurs three times a ... , some for the first time. The companies presenting this year were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you ... for “50 Best” representative of the actual applicant pool ... -long Kurt Vonnegut binge that was unrelated to college but did inspire me for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  start up in that field (see: genome sequencing). Aim for small wins first ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... forces you to build for a real customer; when you have deadlines every few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11 ... that maybe it’s too hard for the class and not the best assignment. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  that sends out alerts for weather reports and updates when needed. I also ... drought conditions for too long Two days later the temperature suddenly ... and dry. Yay. So on Saturday, to prepare for the worst, I went winter

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... last Monday for Team MR8 in memory of my friend Martin Richard, who was killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... of sleep/studied for 8 hours and still failed!" with a "I only got 3 hours of sleep/studied for 20 hours/went to office hours and still failed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015