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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I got a 5, I got an A.  I like that narrative. It’s useful. It’s not ... in 8.02. I went to bed happy. I woke up happy despite having 5 hours of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Exercise as much as possible. Doesn’t have to be much, just 10 minutes or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t overwrite my essays and give them to 10 different people to proofread—I handed

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 – My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That makes me twenty-three whole years old. I am impossibly old. I am improbably old.…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  me about 5 hours to rig the net, which was far longer than I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  who were all 5' 11" to have a focus group about their particular height

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ="65874" image3="65875" image4="65876" image5="65877" /] And then, I had a table

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , challenging endeavor in which it would be one.    5. That said: there is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  flurry for Humans 4 and 5 in the house unless we have taken antihistamines

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Iyn-0af_hlI&feature=emb_logo Excusing So, let’s flash back

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of shenanigans with my friends. Fortunately, summer and my 9-5 work

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  . He looked like this (according to his U.S. passport application): 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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