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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... 'm passing 18.03..") Another point to how we're the best floor ever - we ... lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  here, you can figure out how to thrive most anywhere. this is not an ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  , the blogs were not nearly the beast you see them to be now. I was ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I ... to just be grateful. It is not something that I can easily explain or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  seconds. I have listened people call problems I don’t know how to solve as ... don’t live up to that label. Sometimes it feels that I’m not gay enough ... , but that’s not what it means to be gay. I share gay memes and make jokes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without looking at the link), so I was somewhat skeptical. But I am nothing if not

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about how miserable we both were. Something needed to change. Anything. We ... TV every now and then, and trying not to say no to opportunities to go ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  first conversation, since it is closer to a complete end. This is not to ... [annotation note="this is not equivalent to hedonism (picking the fastest route ... classes, [like] 18.100B/Real Analysis, to see how well I can do on difficult

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

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  busy teaching me to not be fazed by anything. This is how experience ... myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I ... negate how excited I was to graduate.     After graduation I

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... -tool - Best thing you can carry as long as you’re not going to the airport. I ... . Anything also make it into your bags/pockets/fanny packs? (I’m not here to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Monica's high school) "dared" me to talk about "how many real fluke ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... explicitly marked otherwise. Any opinions expressed are our own, and are not meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... workers who have really provided an alternate model, for not only how to be ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  actually able to enjoy learning again when its not a direct causal indicator ... with and still acknowledge how important they are to me. I don’t feel ... haven’t learned how to walk. --- Recently I played Typeracer again. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... note="Ouch... apparently that’s how long tailbone injuries take to heal"]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  MIT has humbled us and no matter how much we've come to terms with Not ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would ... Zoom dinner with them to check in and see how they're doing.   ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021