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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so ... decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... inside me.  One night last year, I went to see a concert in Fenway with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... end in itself, but a means by which to build a better world, and I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... used the name to drive the demon out. The process is a whole story in ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... four days in a row to finish a 6.005 coding pset. After taking two extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... invested in a range of questions, and I want to work on them all right now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  prelude to the Hunt, Palindrome released Star Rats a month in advance, to ... a week or so in advance. And this'd lead to some fun speculation about ... creatively. I was drawn to the final task in the list—perform a lipsync

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  there was a girl who went to my high school and lived in my neighborhood ... came in to argue a similar thing and they allowed it. The student didn ... supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... transferring to MIT, I pursued a sophomore year in Mechanical Engineering at ... would fit in well at MIT and wanted to challenge myself a bit more. A

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I ... other hand— Does a fish know it's in water? I also remember going to a

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from ... development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes ... developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with. All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  out of MIT in January 2020, but had never really felt it to such a ... need to find a better balance, something that I thought I had learned to ... audience in the dark, hiding the labor and work that goes into it to create a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023