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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  , memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible ... the journaling thing many times (including the VOICE ACTIVATED password journal my aunt got me for Christmas one year). Every time I found the same

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -butting a brick wall, so I realized that it was time to change tactics. I ... this part.” Me: “Well, what’s negative x divided by negative one?” Senior ... between division and subtraction? Take the time to give them a conceptual

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code ... 's moved on without me. I'm just upset that some parts that I was familiar

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... unoccupied space midday, especially near lunch time finding outlets is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , looking up would waste time; that was the lesson he wanted us to learn ... other one lasts for weeks at a time, without reason or pattern behind ... you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  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 ... hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  during the times of slavery, only to realize they could not understand the ... their premeditated assumptions was a waste of my time. So I decided to ... first time. You are now a freshman in college and as the oldest of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  the list until you got to the part about the economics major?” Similarly ... times we don’t know what to write, and even when we do, we don’t know if ... got a 700 on the SAT I math section, and every time I get asked "zomg I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... when you meet her, and she spends a lot of her time making sure the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  lie. Our friends had come in from jobs and graduate school all over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  code since I get nervous and embarrassed every time he watches me code ... offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... longer seem as foreign as it did at the time. The gym was completed shortly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... instead. 10.35 - 10.54 am: I'm dressed with some time to spare. This is an ... time, which means that classes start five minutes after the hour and end

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... discovering what it's like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it doesn't make you an altogether sane person for that time, or an altogether

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... an 8-part serial. I might have remembered it better if I had read it as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018