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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  back at these 10 years, several lessons stand out to me. Some of them, I ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor ... a hard one for me – from MIT Marching Band to my service fraternity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross-stitching career! For nearly 2 years  back in 2011 I spent almost every evening and ... with me. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling ... , BEA was fun and immersive. To me, it was also somewhat intimidating ... from me, smiling and holding up a book she had written. While this was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of two nearly-identical, 300-foot-long buildings known as the West and ... placed near that first dorm. So why are all of the other dorms on the ... , way too much rebar, making it a Faraday cage nearly indestructible

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  nearly started crying. It was so good and reminded me so much of childhood ... rooms to non-member summer residents. This had the most appeal to me ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  didn’t want to pay for airbnb rooms. I had an internship ahead of me, so ... Alexandre Dumas -- are on my bookshelf in Cambridge, daring me to take them ... let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  miss my connecting flight in Atlanta. So someone from Delta booked me a ... prerecorded voice make announcements, it was familiarity driving through me like ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . That makes me twenty-three whole years old. I am impossibly old. I am ... shall remain unnamed to protect the aging, who told me, 'I was asking our ... ending!)(It ends with me losing all my toes.) I wanted to pass on some

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  as well, but nowhere nearly as vigorous as us. Then all hell broke ... bit, but obviously not nearly as much as I thought. We'd still like to ... address) is instantly blocked. Sara '12, who's at home this weekend, sent me

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being ... 've met at MIT could be a mentor to me, since conversation flows so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  that used to freeze me up around water. As a recovering perfectionist, I ... life. So to me, standing still means something different than actually ... , and the regressive doubts that hold me back -- making for zero net

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... optional ... dorm? ME: ... FROSH: seems kinda dirty too ME: ... FROSH: i ... there FROSH: because FROSH: you know ME: yes ME: we are always naked

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  they had contacted me. I had taken the SAT nearly a year ago, but that ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... that a college thousands of miles away would send me mail of this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  . The point was specifically to out-compete the people near me, so that ... broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I ... . I would simply be better than the people around me, and it would prove

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... expressed in the following analogy. For me, high school was a lot like rowing ... , and I was often tempted to just give up and let the river wash me back

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  . I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me ... -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... experience has been great, it's allowed me to take a lot of steps back and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020