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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... Hall. These certainly don't sum up the whole city, but they can give you an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... band every week. As you can see from the weekly schedule, there's a ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... possible, so that you can waste hours clicking arond to random interesting ... always no. (You can direct that stuff to admissions at mit dot edu.) 5

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  something that you, your school, your parents, and your guidance counselor can ... about who you are, what you can do, what kind of stuff gets you excited ... . I do promise to get around to more of them as soon as I can. I'm sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing ... , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... can coexist on the same timeline. Every time I board a plane, I can

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  decisions can be made. They can answer basic questions about “how do I choose ... most direct ways people can make each other’s lives better is just by ... try my best. Of course, the thing about having agency is that you can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  +. Are you sure we can handle it?” “Yes. We're only emotionally immature ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... . Please feel free to be honest... if you think that my sort of person can ... necessary! So how was your experience at MIT? If you don't mind, can you tell

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  million students here at MIT can voice their school pride.   We ... scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink.com. Nobody at MIT can. Any IP address that starts with 18 (MIT's personal IP

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

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

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... with bacteria, because I need to prepare some more DNA tomorrow so I can ... experiments I can do at once without a) making stupid mistakes or b) having my

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... management and take ideas from there to see how we can better improve our app

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... pressures that I can disclose was feeling this strange, existential crisis for ... recently; I think within the last three years or so. During the week, you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at ... , but you can find them all here: Weather I've written about this design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  literally a decade ago; but, I can definitely say that I knew that MIT existed ... note="rip"]Google Hangouts[/annotation] which means that I can literally ... view myself as a super-person who can handle literally anything that gets

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... . (Why else are our memories like frames on camera film?) Because: life can only ever be explained in retrospect. (Why else can we only tell stories

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... required courses, or that they can only handle three classes at a time for a ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  essay - you're trying to convey a slice of your life, and thus you can ... , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... into something cool that you can do with your essay here, but please don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you need a well-paying job when you graduate? B: So I can live well. A: Why ... , Aristotle argues that no ethical theory can provide a rule-based decision

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021