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  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... to main memory (system 1). a work in progress: almost finished ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to ... in NYC). Thanks to Burchard, I didn't fumble with the knives and forks!

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work ... and in bed - Newsflash: I have time to read! I rarely read for fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , going to a formal, and then maybe some stuff about playing in the snow. I ... UP TO I now live in foggy, hippie, fair-trade San Francisco ... , investing in new technologies and ideas), I am so proud to wear my brass rat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... didn't have the maturity to see these changes in others; the MIT I first ... before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... , really just light up a room." To which I quickly replied, "Oh, I'm just in ... Year's resolution to be kinder, before scoffing a bit in disbelief. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  much more fulfilling, than responding in kind. Sometimes it's better to ... Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... the fame or fortune to allow them them get a job, situation, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods ... called Curveship.js, which allows you to view a story in [annotation note ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  you should try not to get too trapped in the bubble, so that you can ... . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... .” -Antonio Moreno “Let’s get rid of the stigma that you need to toughen up and deal

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... just switched to Course 9 from Course 5, which in my humble opinion was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a ... acceptance we extend to adorably furry creatures in cages, the ones we select

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  was leaving my home, not headed to it. In four weeks I had developed an ... - in the doctor’s who had labored straight through Christmas to reach a ... smiles, and in my family, which had rushed to my side during my time of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and ... . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  in course 6/9 related things I'd highly recommend it, to get a taste of ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... sand in neat patterns to make transistors and other circuit elements ->

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019