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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... little hazard sign pops up next to the four wi-fi bars in the bottom

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  impossible to manage with so many people, like in a dorm or living group that ... thing to do, or it gets really cold out, as it does in Boston. Then what ... CSKiAHR8Nyk07g8 If one of these sounds good to you, or would rather walk in

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

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

  

  blow something up - to apply it somehow, in one way or another. I am not ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... you should come to MIT, why you should pick this school over Stanford or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  made sure I stayed on track or close to on track each week. I turned in ... revelation, philosophical or otherwise, about what I want to do in the future ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions

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

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

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into ... know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression

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

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

  

  tone down part of your personality or interests to fit in here? Do you ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ...  click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working ... the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap

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

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a ... ’s [annotation note=" line sisters or brothers refer to the people in the same new ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make ... 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 / About Decisions

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

  

  to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ ... that day was rain showers, and I didn’t want to run in the rain! We ... who were staying on campus moved to Simmons or Next. I talked about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . Frobert ‘13 It’s your turn in Star Realms. You go to buy the Mech World, but ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college ... essays that don't hand the reader its moral (or "point" - so to speak ... a lot in my peers back in the day when we were all applying to college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept ... both: people who have gone to grad school, but now work in industry, or ... 5 or 6 years, assuming all goes well, will lead to a Ph.D. in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021