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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every ... . I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite board games. We can play ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  Mystery Hunt written by teammate. Looking at these answers, I can't help ... much logistics. If you can put the thing on a website, [annotation note ... candle I hold, if the best I can do is hold a candle. The structure depends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to ... math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  amazing online calculator. It can calculate anything I've ever needed to ... your files. Bad things can happen if you don’t. Two weeks ago I copy ... laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . I haven't used these resources to find housing to be fair, but you can ... the bubble". I can balance my life far better when I'm not constantly ... is with, say, 50. I've found that I can be really particular with my

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

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

  

  language. I know it’s long, so you can skip to around 15:30 and watch from ... agonizing over whether I could afford to buy orange juice. (The answer was ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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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 ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... Random Hall. I once asked a former resident of Random Hall why the milk had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  time. (Despite the fact that usually I can barely see the top.) How it ... try to convince ESP to buy me a circular saw (which they did!). I ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • 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

  

  the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... websites I remember frequenting, searching through posts for any glimpse into who I was. Unfortunately, some of these websites aren’t around any more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  past. We can help. Have you slept? Good luck. EC Gothic Nchinda N. '17 ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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 ... that I deserve! The cold hard truth is that you can never really be sure ... (-100 My Parents Can Just Buy Me A Spot At [REDACTED] Points)?  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... overkill. Or, I don’t know. We can talk about the spreadsheet later. Anyway ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  buildings, like how I talked about the ESP website and Building 20. I first ... a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan ... developers might know, because I can't maintain Hydrant forever. Leave the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 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 ... not ever fixing it!!!! so I've been buying soap this whole time for the

  • 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

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just finish? Why can’t you just work? Why have you become so useless? I shudder

  • 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

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that ... ? john asked. you can't, i learned. and yet, we can work toward that ... working conditions better, so i can do work tomorow. instead of stubbornly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022