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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... up on sleep, took really good-looking pictures, and even.. studied ... -floor love, too. Since most of us are going our separate ways this Thursday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life ... portfolios as a way to give me assistance, all I can think of are the millions ... decide that, instead of falling on my sword before the fight’s even begun

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  things considered, I’m doing pretty good! I got my first dose of the COVID ... , my dream is that all of my trainees go on to succeed. How to work with ... done for that version of me. And life moves on.   What’s the last TV show

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  new random obstacles along the way, like the herd of wandering cows and ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... that there is very little of a safety net. On a standard multiple choice

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... share with some of our prospective students what it feels like on the ... withholding the application process from my friends. On the top floor of Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... called The Disenchanted, written by one of the people who worked on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... , I had four problem sets per week, three of which were due on Friday ... and watched more old episodes of Captain Planet (5 AM weekdays on UPN

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... the math section of the SATs, a mere 710 on the SAT II Bio test (why ... doses of optimism. So I focused on what I had going for me: sincere

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... I have encountered a type of person and a way of learning different ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on ... thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... seems to me that she is kind of like an anthropologist of new people and ... needlepoint portraits of people’s dogs!  She then goes on to say, “But I’m not

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... school that I set foot on three Augusts ago, and in many ways, even better ... . Instead, you are asked to apply that knowledge to new situations on the exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of ... the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first ... people told me that this was a good method of advertising the Guild. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... Boston Marathon as a member of Team MR8, the charity team that runs on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  particularly painful rejection myself, Brené Brown’s words on the power of ... beauty in all of those things, and in life, nothing truly good comes ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... art of tying knots and people in practical and ornamental ways. Our ... of food that your peers cook on a regular basis during the semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... of connection (and new parts of myself). Back to reading now

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021