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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  great suggestions, but one in particular caught my attention, in response ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often describe their experience the same way. Even in the most difficult moments

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• 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…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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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 ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

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

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in ... in front of a camera and talk about science!" – so it was really great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... explained in one of my earliest blogs, freshman Cami learned the importance of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping ... hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... consumption over a month: they found that a net positive increase in movies per ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014