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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... people with depression do. Instead, it felt like someone had scooped out ... for me to feel enough alarm to do anything about it. Sitting around all

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... ’t think I should even try. Fuck your shit, was my response. I’m doing this. I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  or skiing and me staying home to work. I wouldn’t do that. If I could do things over I would work less, kayak more, photograph more sunrises ... being completely honest about what I’d been doing since I sent my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... true. I really need to do laundry, which means that all my usual shirts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do ... ’t do jumping exercises without hitting them or standing in particular

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  perfectly fine, if we do the same things from the outside. And yet, what can ... became depressed. I lost motivation to do schoolwork and spent a lot of my ... depressed. My mother berated me and warned me to never do that again. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  cube, as most 3D modeling softwares have buttons that'll do just that. In ... while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to ... . Others, like Rhino and SketchUp, have associated plugins that'll do it. To

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’s what I’ll do for you, I’ll add hot water to the cup, then pour espresso ... origin based on this linguistic tic, but I do not ask. “No, no just a ... .” “Really? Ours was very small, not many people wanted to do it.” “That

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

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

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not ... wouldn't survive the weekend (he did! and he's doing wonderfully), an ... doing wasn't what I was really interested in. But coming across my usual

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ("department" - 100 words), What You Do That's Creative ("creativity" - 250 words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... I will do yoga. And I guess my time playing soccer hasn’t entirely ... do amazing things (including win a National Championship for us

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  entitled to politely anti-haze current members into doing tasks of their ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... until I asked my mom how she was doing multiple months later. I didn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  of the winning teams' strategies. My team is planning on doing this again next year. The data has shown us what we'll need to do to win first ... ideas a success reminded me of what MIT students can do when we put our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  day than I do—if you’re an athlete on just anyone on a high-calorie diet ... different accommodations. You can do this, I promise! [note to parents ... change. Some would even say, “I could never do that. It’s too intense.” And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting ... it much less likely that both will do their best impression of ... consider their thoughts much more carefully than I do, because I blow through

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am ... following lesson about myself: I can do good work under pressure, if I manage ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , scrolling through the Facebook group and thinking "I DO NOT BELONG, I AM NOT ... meet other prefrosh (and current MIT students) and don't know what to do ... . Or both. Please make it the former, and do whatever you can to prevent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013