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  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... and a hug and have her favorite chocolate chip pancakes ready. The day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... has some administrative buildings, MIT medical, and Sloan. (Here, east ... has the name East Campus.) Then there’s north campus and northwest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... gyroscopes!). But there are certain feelings and observations, lessons and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Tube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  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 ... come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015