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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... , with a few hairpin turns thrown in for good measure. It's accepting being ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ="i flirted with the idea of staying for grad school for a while, but ultimately ... stressed"]had fun[/annotation] making this! https ... watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself ... Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  --apologies for the low quality, but I hope you still find it a fun glimpse into ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the ... numbers that begin with E, like E23 Health Services or E62 MIT Sloan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... ’re familiar with common notions that men are spatial and logical thinkers, while

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... slots to fill. Thankfully, as a junior with a CMS concentration, I managed ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  own before working with friends, going for office hours, etc. It ... , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... from our friend Paula J. ‘14 when she moved in with friends who already ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a ... taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  much of it is free!! You can 3D print using white ABS plastic for free ... material isn't free for laser cutting, but there is a bin of partially used ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first ... them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  change for the next test, I was happy with my preparation, I just happened ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008