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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... of all things outdoors and frequent airline travel vouchers has led me ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... person and nobody would have ever entrusted me with anything more dangerous ... it does. For some people, this is old hat. For me, it's really

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... psychiatrist found me a practice covered by my insurance, and i went through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I ... something to me, that I still feel this way even though next year I ... about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  , but part of me feels like it’s a cop-out, as I’ve already taken a ... things that researchers studied before me. From another angle, I also ... appreciate how powerful this was, that nothing could scare me away from trying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  things that made me happy. (Interestingly, many of my friends from MIT felt the same way about post-graduation life.) What was stopping me? On some ... you to make time to do the things you want to do. My work often has me

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  . Feel free to request random things you'd like me to record, whether it ... YouTube statistics The New Entity || VEDA #8 – about me, The Friendly ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  I could ever realize because it made me stop, smell the roses, and ... because it was some crazy place. Let me not mince words. In high school ... find people like me (“Oh, you sometimes walk down the hall thinking of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Wars (I know, I know). Cory tells me that the Death Star is an ... me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  that I thought he had, and that I need. (I am annoyed.) He tells me to ... !" out loud, and one of the postdocs gives me a strange look. 10:15 AM. I ... describe, which really disappointed me, because I like the smell of LB as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  slow, as if several lifetimes stand between me and March 2020. Time is ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... . But it felt to me like they weren't founding a startup because they ... running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  the Research Obviously, this *should* be the first step. For me, my ... had me take it in whatever direction I desired. Originally, I had landed ... was going to have me submit to the Student Game Design Competition in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  tells me there's something wrong with my microphone, which is the built ... room, staring at me wide-eyed and mouthing that she needs something. She ... ="attachment_51796" align="aligncenter" width="768"] please let me work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... ’t convince me). Blanche’s struggle to separate her fantasies from her reality was tragic to read, and personally fascinating to me; I’ve spent a lot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to ... .02"]8.02x,[/annotation] which she carried in a red "lunchbox" that reminded me ... . This resonated with me – from when I first arrived on campus for my FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  't belabor the explanation here. A puzzlehunt isn't just about puzzles. For me ... that team culture forms reminds me a lot of MIT's residential culture ... charge of COVID policy, my negative test, and then he gave me a sticker to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  extra extra extra careful with my words is what makes me sound like a true mature student Alright, that’s enough intro from me. I collected my ... last haiku, written by me, and not a robot: hello admit! come join the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  , using the most comprehensive, unbiased data available to me (which is ... you can find A smarter hat than me. You can dye your boxer briefs, Your ... , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... do any of it. Instead, my mom came and sat next to me, and we did New ... myself happier, and that's all that I'll carry forward with me. To all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018