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

  

  where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed that I would attend UW Madison (wrong), triple major (typical MIT frosh ... -10 years (not yet). I had no idea that I would bike halfway across the

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

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

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... 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

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from ... notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... know if these programs would run in the fall, let alone how they'd be run ... , obvious, but it really wasn't something I did before, not in any serious

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my ... ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a ... all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... some friends in sf, and i couldn't bring myself to enjoy the company. or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 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 ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  anything in my life right now, what would i change? i don’t know. i don ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in ... are people in Bexley too. Oh, I think it was about their “student ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... 'm not sure they know I have these pictures but I was in the group text

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ? I also don’t quite know what the future would be like for me in this ... ? Would I be happy working in finance? Right now, I think I have a decent ... . But in finance, I wouldn’t be able to work on any of that. While I would

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... often, I notice students get caught in a rut when they're writing the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018