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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  while, if not ever. I’m sad to leave behind my childhood home, but I ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -Madison did not offer aid to international students, and my parents would have ... to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... were good. *** I’m not really going to talk about CPW or about making the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  ) looked like in April 2015. It's going to be strange, not constantly ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to ... . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

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

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take ... by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... to continue holding onto the guardrail and not plunge in as I peer over

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... my classes (CGPA 9.2/10.0, not bad I guess) would always try my best to ... year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  bit, but obviously not nearly as much as I thought. We'd still like to ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not ... , okay...not all of us, myself included, actually know how to log off and ... not-so-little ways. Thank you to everyone who has read, or written, or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  landmarks, not to mention a frequent target for hackers and tourists alike ... -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook to the Institute. Often called HowToGAMIT for short, the handbook is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  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 ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  dressing that I was told I was not allowed to eat. Ten... nine... eight ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly why it’s important to know about depression, and how to live with or ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  manipulative because the Y-axis starts at 10K and not 0. Remember, I'm paid to ... , but not all. I loved being able to look up from my desk and get student ... not be in better hands. To bloggers past, present, and future, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014