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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... international high-risk conflict zones from climate change effects after doing ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... evident through the animation classes we have taken at MassArt, where we are at home surrounded by people that look at a beautifully animated

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  are the reviewers taking a bored, cursory glance at the first page and ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... walks can really help, but be careful if it is late at night. A long walk through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a ... 'm doing at the moment. I always feel like I have to tread gently to prevent ... stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  have been stared at, asked countless times the “what are you” questions ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  MIT. And yet at the same time, in the four years since I've graduated ... I moved back to San Francisco and started medical school at my dream ... experienced at all. I am very grateful for the blogs, the wonderful people I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... page story, and other times they're as specific as "Write a four ... at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... NASA. At the same time, my life ambitions have shifted dramatically over

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same ... later—[annotation note="i’m usually good at remembering random facts about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... says ‘IHTFP.’ You find yourself whispering ‘IHTFP’ at random moments. You ... . You copy it down. You tell the freshmen at the sailing pavilion that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also ... getting a winter coat at some point, but maybe over Thanksgiving break or ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... forgetting) came and hung out at MIT, and we shared testimonies from each ... , BANANAS (Believers at New and Next and Simmons), and even one dedicated for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... was better than me at math and Japanese and writing and quiz bowl and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... nice height Cons creepy lighting on higher floors at night second ... from Joonho's blog "places at mit," which has much prettier pictures and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the ... summer things. But now I stand at an awkward place where I don't really ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... intended to do Computer Engineering at Purdue, and was involved in ML

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and beloved professors at the institution. 8.01L met in the basement ... you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... problems, but some of these people have become my closest friends at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  better in a quiet coffeeshop at noon, or maybe you work better in a huge ... train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another ... climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... made, feat. Robby circa early 2011. wow. Amazing (at that point I hadn ... historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015