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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  I stick around afterwards to eat my food and hang out with my friends ... 'm on my way to hang out with a friend in the Rainbow Lounge, but first I ... head out at 5 because we are hosed, me with final projects and my friend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  night. # oh right  My friend is taking 8.022, and I keep telling myself ... know my friend has a different schedule and different skills, a different ... comparisons. It’s really truly not. When I got home at five, my friend was just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  room or a friend's room (or in my case, my favorite spot on the sidewalk ... , I buy squishables. They bring me so much joy!! My friend and I also ... two scrapbooks, one for my friend and one for me, and a bunch of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  laughing with my friends all the way home after the assignments are safely ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  friends who weren't afraid to spout Maxwell's equations in regular ... saw an incredible display of talent from down-to-earth, friendly peers ... right fit at MIT until I talked with my CPW host Erica, the most amazing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .   (Last summer, my brother, my mother, and some family friends ... ). This is my brother and his friend, who is also half Chinese. He is half ... , and sometimes with the daughter of my mother’s friend. That summer, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  friends I did have were friends from high school or my mom’s students. I don ... people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... you make it. Two years ago I got into MIT and Caltech. I also spent my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  puns Somehow my friends and I got it in our heads that terrible puns ... Hotel on my friend Omar’s server Omarville. My mom is really sweet and ... sitting in class when my friend sitting next to me drew a little rectangle

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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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 ... . We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... some pictures that I took throughout my graduation experience yesterday ... will be mine... hopefully! On the turf: Anna, my roommate for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... products. Basically, my grad student Andy and I are building a reactor and ... Maillard reaction. Over the past year, my job has involved everything from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  [annotation note="You know who you are <3"]my friends,[/annotation]who tried tons ... reconnect with my high school friends over the break, I'm realizing that (of course) my MIT friends and I don't have the same level of connection as the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  myself (and my family and friends, many times) that if school didn’t eat 60 ... window. I read Lud-in-the-Mist. I called my friend in Tucson, who had just ... . I texted my friend frantically for two days straight. My mom kept

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  more, from my friends: Cockatrice, recommended by several people in ... , but my friend, a fellow Randomite whom I will only call Deep Vim, argues ... , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  my friends outside of class. I should have searched for a healthier ... Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience ... just combined to feed the worry. My friends were around me, and they had ... decisions came, the more encouraging my friends got, and from their words, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had ... things that made me happy. (Interestingly, many of my friends from MIT felt ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  . Then we joined Irina O. ‘15 (my roommate and lifelong cousin-like friend ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot ... IAP and am publishing my research at the Bridges Conference this summer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015