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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  1 am to 5 am every night to work on it. I couldn’t find any other time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  /exercise (Exercise really can make you feel better!!) 5. Body Scans There are lots of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes, but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I’m battling a 5.60 (thermodynamics) p-set. The deceptively fluffy roadslush

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  not having to specialize by becoming a science writer 5) the summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  on these small essays. Essentially, you have 5 "mini-essays" - What

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  , took it, felt great about it, and then scored in the bottom 5% of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  doesn't really answer, however, [annotation note="cf. annotation 5 ... culminated in a recent existential crisis where I was up until 5 AM re

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  theme I wake up around half past 10 and start answering emails. There were ... Building 10 under the sky, just like all those pictures. And I just stood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too… one day you will

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  10:00 PM. He said that I should take the nap, so I did. I set an alarm

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  convinced I wouldn't get in because I wasn't even in the top 10% at my school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  manipulative because the Y-axis starts at 10K and not 0. Remember, I'm paid to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  wasn’t right for me. In the 5 minutes since I started writing this post ... 5 or 6 years, assuming all goes well, will lead to a Ph.D. in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Battle Fantasy 5 and how Redux works and dumplings. I’ll introduce you to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  infinitely many pieces. By Hilbert’s time it was not yet solved. 1.5 David ... Boltíànskiĭ’s Hilbert’s Third Problem. 5 Conclusion Hilbert’s third problem is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  it here as well. https://youtu.be/qv3tNu5ZqPc This led to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I’ve talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I’ll take the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ITS SPOOKY SEASON (complete) A spoopy piece of content every day for the month of October.

  

  idk. Thanks Jessie for this idea 10/1 10/2 10/3 10/4 10/5 10/6 10/7 10/8 10/9 10/10 10/11 10/12 10/13 10/14 10/15 10/16 10/17 [video width="640" height="800" mp4="https

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  everywhere. Kathleen '10 ended up living on 5th East! I can tell that she ... I promised you 5th East Hall Rush photos, so here they are. 3rd East ... getting back down was another. Hilarity ensued. 5th East has the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006