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  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... in my closet, in my room in East Campus, while I did zoom school from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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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 ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was ... in Ethiopia, but I came home and still tried, in my own, hand

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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