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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  that that doesn't matter as long as I'm prepared for it. The same is true ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  ... but I had one of the best Saturdays I've had in a long time. It was ... building something awesome. Some people do it through UROPs. Some people do it through clubs. Some people do it through hackathons. Hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I ... Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  highlighted how incompetent I was. It hit me hard. I had worked extremely hard ... beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ="i did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I ... unable to actually to actually touch you. Your GPA remains exactly how it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... phone again. My head seemed eerily quiet, but not empty. It was as if my ... was to come, and it had, until now. I thought that through my fasting I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long ... : California! How do you like it here? Me: It’s awesome. What course are you ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges? There surely has to be some foil to show how deeply enamored we are with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  depressed, angry, and saddened at myself, this failure, and how it could ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  other hand— Does a fish know it's in water? I also remember going to a ... differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... . I would simply be better than the people around me, and it would prove

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  -med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?" It makes sense that I received this ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... weeks *cough*) when MIT makes me feel like this: But mostly, it makes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• 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 ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  days, though, and appreciated how hard everyone worked. It feels so ... knows more than you just how to make it work. Figuring this all out on our ... ="I really do not know how many days. I think it will keep increasing the more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  description of how it turned out :D Five years later, Amanda L. '17 and Joie C ... I could have it for free, as long as I passed it along for free," said ... , maybe Ixa's? Closing thoughts Scale. Twenty-four years. How long is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  shorter for me (even though it was just as long for the rest of the crew ... writing; I'm just happy with how it sounds.] On the morning after filming ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  use. "It was so obvious. This entire time. How could you not know you ... much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008