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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education-related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... ’ve crossed this bridge less than five times in my life (excluding the one or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... affected my life that month. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't have felt the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• 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

  

  in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  . I'm talking about serious life lessons. Not all of them translate well ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric American English. Multiple observers nowadays report that naturalized…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... classes, is a basic part of MIT life (and frequently, so is non

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  like many parts of my life began to shift and settle into place, if only on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work-life ... with people in that stage of life, and it was strangely comforting to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... Zealand. I was really excited to experience what life outside of America was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  your life. You always had so many dreams. I’ve said it in one way or ... but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.” Sartre ... ’ve been worrying your whole life. My therapist asked about my first memory

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  people I know from the different parts of my life. Kind of like a crossover event of my life.  What’s one thing you’ve learned in the past month ... done for that version of me. And life moves on.   What’s the last TV show

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life ... about shelter or food. I essentially won life’s lottery when my mom moved ... or colleges.  Life is not a race and there is room for everyone (I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  with unique life. As I became more and more entrenched in UW ... little bit of life that washes into some machinery and potentially shapes ... of your life, I daresay it’s necessary to be invested. But at the same

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... different possible career paths, and correspondingly paths through life. So ... straightforward phrasing, what makes life meaningful? This, of course, is a very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  life was a possibility.    Values and Decisions All three of them ... her life beyond her years at college, so she looked for organizations ... women supporters in her life: her mom and two aunts. They made sure that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  shenanigans that I'll look back on fondly for the rest of my life. I'm excited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  bad, it's just life. This is also something I forgot to account for when ... , the setting for the life sciences. Through molecular biology and ... ideas of Eastern spirituality, where life and death are deeply intertwined

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  are created, extended upon, and brought to life.  Now that the paper ... destruction, but also a source of energy and life. Maybe I overestimated what I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  life. I meet a lot of frosh I haven't met before, and we get to present

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020