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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... im trying to run to my room so i can cry in the [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  remain in memories once it's done. I personally can't empathize with this ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... with the Mystery Hunt, or puzzlehunts in general. In this post, I'll go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running ... graduate in one of the worst recessions in decades. There’s nothing I can do ... meaningless and less productive. I can: Do laundry and sleep in my clean

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact ... : I don’t believe in the impact of my work, and I’m not challenged in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the ... class syllabus, just because I can. Required Reading: 1) MIT Hack Gallery

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life ... molecules. Reformulate the equation. In short, I want you to hack the world

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... 'm not sure they know I have these pictures but I was in the group text

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from ... notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider

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

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

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... . Can you tell that I didn’t sleep much? I had already learned Freshman

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... 's see if we can involve stairs in this bad idea somehow. 15:17 - 16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011