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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  loss for words. You might be incredulous at the fact that I hadn't been reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn't ... storage, saying goodbye, watching movies with friends who I won't see for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh*t ... Adults (if that wasn't already expected of us to begin with). Just ... no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  that that future will potentially be taken away. Negative decisions don't ... applications, etc. We won’t say that receiving negative decisions gets easier ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn’t ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... dorms. I don't recall anything painted on it. Wait, fire? Who said ... . Turns out this isn't even the first incident of students intentionally

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet ... ago; I don’t think I’ll ever feel like I’m learning fast enough anymore

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . I don’t think they’ve ever been so colorful – I remember white tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... you won’t hear about if you don’t leave MIT and return, one language

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with ... already learned multivariable calc (even if they won't use it) is a little ... won't sugarcoat it. Those 2 years of my life were awful. What MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the $3.50 cups in Boston that don't even taste that good (I never ... Harvard Square - their (endless) chips and salsa are amazing. I don't care ... too! 45. Eat at Mike's Pastries - I don't know how many times I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... II who don’t know the difference between subtraction and division, and students of all grade levels who can’t write a grammatically correct complete

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

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ;summa cum laude" from MIT. Of course, MIT doesn't have Latin honors ... -quality quotation, director Jon Favreau said of Stark as a superhero, "He wasn’t

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn’t ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn’t ... . I hoped they couldn’t see me typing all this into my phone. 21W.755 ... into. I almost didn’t, actually, but I suppose crossing my fingers and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  dynamic systems (in other words, stuff that math doesn’t describe well and so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... . And then this morning I became just like the seniors I hadn’t understood

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and ... --you didn’t know the crystal structure was elucidated in 2001? Then how are ... double stranded DNA breaks? Aren’t you curious about the differential

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18 ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  lectures and labs. I didn’t think the material seemed personally appealing, but I hadn’t heard entirely positive reviews about that class anyway, so ... ? Got straight As? Weren’t intimidated by the apparently superior 6

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015