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  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  stormy night… Alan: It was a dark night. I don’t think it was particularly ... isn’t actually that hard to unsubscribe from a mailing list, or even just a specific flame war. CJ and I wanted to ask the question: “what can’t

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  ; those words probably don’t make much sense to you, so here’s a short ... times is basically zero here are some examples of arguments that don’t ... , but these procedures aren’t zero-knowledge because my friend learns the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... , because mit dorms aren't just buildings. as an example, danny wrote a post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  more honestly, probably won't get one because I don't have the time ... , and that's really saying something because I still haven't shut up about ... I was right. It didn't even start off okay. I fully thought that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don't ... collaborative places I've experienced and I'm eternally grateful that I don't have ... that I haven't had the greatest track record in terms of keeping mentally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  credit from being a varsity athlete, so I don’t technically need to take ... : Collect 60 free t-shirts - ~40% complete. For whatever reason, the free t-shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can’t ... ), so we didn't even try running as we usually would try to do, we missed ... didn’t check our decisions exactly at 6:28 pm, so we must have done a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  weren’t black. It was as weird as saying “you’re human”. But by my first ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly, I didn’t know if I had any “right” to consider myself black. The word

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  this method, even if your teacher is terrible and you don’t understand ... is basically hot off the academic presses, and so you can’t find much ... car, and we don’t know how far it’s traveled, but we know it’s velocity

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  I won’t be there till summer of next year, I really miss Nigeria. I ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I didn’t hesitate to take with me some leftover ogbono soup when I couldn’t

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  week that you didn’t know two weeks ago. And even when you’re not mindful of the exponential rise MIT gives your scholastic awareness, it doesn’t ... despair, “but nothing works. I don’t even know how to start.” “I’m stuck

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  . The idea being that if you look up there and see that 28 hasn't hit in ... that it didn't land on 28 15 times in a row, its just spinning around ... and now I see that it hasn't hit in 15 spins so now I know it's going to

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  . Oh my goodness.) The couple to my left don't speak much English, but ... DON'T HIT ME cyclist jackets) took out his earbud and asked whether I ... . I had another project, though, which I didn't talk much about in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  it didn't pay off anyway. I sympathize, but - as someone who has made ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don't ... like a failure. Worse, I hadn't only let myself down, but I had let an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... , what are my chances . . . .) Number one isn't so much of an issue with a ... hard to answer them. We don't know everything and usually blog the stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  time over an hour slower than the qualifying time. What I did wasn't ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon ... marathon for you to run, and then your parents won't have to make the trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  D students. i don't think this is necessarily a good thing but it would be ... , but this doesn't need to be true nor is MIT benefited from it ... way people feel comradery with others of their frat even if they haven't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  more risks. Though my poetry isn't good by any means, I thought it would ... (Blazon) Untitled by Cami Mejia (Prose) blood doesn’t mean shit by Cami ... Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn’t ... couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would ... school, I realized that you couldn’t just major in medicine, and for a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Random Hall. I realized that when I was browsing the blogposts, I didn't ... source of Random content) and I feel like that was partly the reason I didn't ... life: East Campus. But then I didn't. Because I changed my mind again

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019