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  50 Reflections

  

  has passed. This narrative isn't likely to be particularly linear. But you guys probably don't care. (Thanks.) Inspired by my own 50 Things, I ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1 ... -in one that came with the laptop when I bought it four years ago. I don't

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  -optimal solutions to the questions, or simply don't finish at all, so my success with ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... final round on-site interview at a company in seattle, but they haven't

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t-shirts (which you can't really see because we all had multiple layers on because ... wearing a shark body suit, and another wearing a T-Rex body suit (see video

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I ... really a preview of what MIT will be like? I don’t think most pre ... haven’t done that it will likely become unable to think of happy things

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... , I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of ... carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ...   I really don’ t know where to start with these guys. I’m truly blessed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... ? Draftback didn’t have this data. Moreover, it's not clear what Draftback counts as 1 revision, so I don't know exactly what Wednesday's "median of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... topics I wouldn’t devote a whole post to, but consider important as ... flurry. I can’t access that mindset now. Here's what I looked like then

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to ... from 3pm to 6pm, and didn't make much progress. So Thursday I pulled an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life ... didn't want to give up and I wanted to never surrender. I didn't know if ... . Today I feel how you feel. I don't know if I can still pass the class with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't ... Central Square 12:35pm decide to take the T instead because it's chilly 12

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn't ... isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• 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.

  

  myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... write notes to myself - "IF YOU DON'T READ THIS CHAPTER RIGHT NOW, I'LL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN." It hasn't worked so far - Thursday was the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  much as I [annotation note="when i wasn't, you know... incredibly ... to songs I didn’t even realize I knew and admiring the outfits. The ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• 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

  

  I was there, but I don't think I ever appreciated it enough ... . Lobby 7: At night, when there weren't many people there, I'd just look up ... all the huge posters, and marvel. Barker Library: I didn't actually go

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had ... the dignified-sounding "alums group." sometimes this doesn't happen ... appear and never get developed. ideas i had that didn't fit in anywhere, or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  the mother want? She hasn't gotten anything back. Have I really given my ... interesting things that don't often happen to people (my latest story was a ... favorite high school English teacher sat me down and told me she didn’t think

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... essays that don't hand the reader its moral (or "point" - so to speak ... her enigmatic smile. It's beautiful!"? "But-but-" you ask, "Aren't we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008