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  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to speak on Washington Mall, the people (men and women) who allowed Betty Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... movies and actually discussing what I should do for my birthday, it was decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Mitra did. I think Mitra definitely did. :) Adam and I actually didn't go ... during my sophomore year, but one time we were at a dorm formal and looked at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  presentations and readings, not psets, so I didn't post anything from it. 6 ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E = methylene, I = methine). c) Label each amine, alcohol, and hydrogen by sp3 CC

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  and practice). so far it's incredibly beautiful but harsh (it's about a ... ], fnaf 2 because on friday i went to see it with friends, and ... what i'm consuming and meditating on i think has been really productive

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... journal, and someone I’ve never interacted with will read it, and will think ... “Well there’s evidence on both sides, like X and Y versus Z and W”. But at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  mom to come Tuesday night and bring me home Wednesday morning. Yeah ... .03 again next semester), and have packed up just about everything I don ... elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward. Some of you may feel happy to ... have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  post-blizzard pics except idk how to use photoshop

  

  during the snowstorm Sunday/Monday, MIT campus was closed Monday and ... "] these poor souls, i left my bike out in the snow once and then my chain ... "]East Campus[/annotation]. On hall, some of my friends made hot coco and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  to do, and eventually we got to our hotel. It was Christmas Eve, and we ... warmer jackets. On Boxing Day, I got an extra shirt and pair of pants. I had few material belongings, but I was rich in life. Spain and Portugal

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I Made MIT-ish ASMR you're welcome (i'm so sorry)

  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small ... glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... the fact that it has been that long, and it's way longer compared to ... miss you, h306 i'm gonna miss east campus, and all of it's weirdness

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... ’t know. But, people say that a picture is a thousand words, and talking ... enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much ... include billowing cloudscapes, mystical cats, and sharp black shadows ... 'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  ’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... for you to talk, shake it off, and remember you will survive, even ... : stove cook your oatmeal, and never look back. We understand that this may

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really ... -home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851: Satellite ... Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  blogger tag yourself: quarantine edition favorite hobby? looking in the mirror and wondering if i'm real

  

  if i didn't tag myself as, erm, myself, i'd probably say i'm Afeefah. damn, i'm always working in bed and it's SUCH an issue. who are you? let us know :)

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 1, 2020