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  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  . For my entire life I’ve had this vision of myself: Graduate high school ... hours away) if I’m feeling adventurous. This was the way my life was ... irreversibly changed the trajectory of my life. I wrote an email to one of my

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  role models in my life. I will never live up to the example you set, but ... Margaret here.  Professor Ann-Marie Thomas wrote about Woodie's early life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year’s Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Hello! Just giving a quick update on what's going on with my life and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  has definitely increased, I could not be happier with how life is going ... . This semester has really brought a good balance to my life when I think ... learning but life in general this semester, and I can fully say I am

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some stuff! In…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  doing. I waited because I naively hoped that life would settle down into a ... an autograph or something. ES.S41 Nonviolence as a Way of Life This ... medium security prison, who are often serving very long or life sentences

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

    livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2,988…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Cadillacs, refrigerators and all the paraphernelia of American life, I yet

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next ... day or yours. Remember there is life outside a college decision, or a career decision, or any one email. Try to be present in your current life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to ... to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  my life and I’ve cooked more than once in a month!). The culture and ... worth it. And finally, a sneak peak into the life, via polaroids: the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  at MIT. Don’t ogle at the amenities. Talk! REX Life ≠ Real Life. A ... excitement of novel college life subsided. A common suggestion is to make ~1 ... absorb. Knowledge, in this case, may truly save a life. Save the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Officer Collier’s life and to honor his service as it reminds us of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I’m an admissions officer. If they ask me what an admissions officer actually does, though, it can be…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  on the street in our host cities. And so on. So, that’s my life update ... in life, because at the end of the day my pset buddies often lacked the ... perspectives – many different perspectives! – on college life. They had a big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... judgmental about trivializing worries about what to make of your life, how to ... car-crash victim, there always seems to be a lower layer to which life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  current students about what life at MIT is like nowadays. For example ... ) because: 1) I got paid real life money. (Wut. I’ve been involved in theater ... of the class of 2014. Some of them have impacted my life in innumerable

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  called Real Life. Perhaps that's how life will always seem--strange and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014