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  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana ... an internal monologue. The thing about brains is that it's so easy to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  The end of a chapter

  

  taught at much greater depth and breadth. We learnt about the ... classes I took at MIT during my freshman and sophomore year, which mainly ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student Center, and marveled at the Great Dome while standing in Killian ... get what you want. And to deal with whatever life throws at you, no ... depressed, angry, and saddened at myself, this failure, and how it could

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... regular at the Brain and Cognitive Science colloquium; running up to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the ...  MPhil in engineering (as well as an MASt in applied mathematics) at Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  Harley batting away at a roach, I cupped its remains and took it away as ... descriptions of our friendly neighborhood roach and her internal organs. It will ... , only getting bits at a time. Then I had a thought. Sometimes when I eat

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... right after we “finished” it at the end of January, but then the rush of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor ... Steam by Terry Pratchett, page 20 Lydia again: breakfast is one of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat ... lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... cigarette butts at my feet. One dog, little and orange, who chases the rats

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , forever gaping at you. It only took a week—my first week as a freshman, when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... attended at most one class per subject per week. I skipped all 18 ... week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  internally inconsistent or erratic, at least for highly selective schools, is ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel ... downs, but by my last semester, I felt comfortable at MIT.  This did not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif ... respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... description of the Diskworld from the first page of The Colour of Magic: In a ... rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination. In a brain

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  seems unlikely, because why not shoot for the stars? However, at MIT, we ... my aquarius friends/family members is their ability to not internalize ... they interact with are feeling, and are experts at adapting themselves to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018