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  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
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister ... all overheated in the UV that is surely at least 13, then jump in all over again.  One thing is always certain after spending an afternoon at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy, including small towns and ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  to table to floor and back, singing our hearts out and feeling joy. At that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and ... point at all. Instead, I managed to deflect the conversation to things I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... emotional instability. Two days later I had a procedure at MIT Medical to ... Eric at Tufts. My dad tells me that when he and my mom were at Phys

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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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 ... incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more ... at Yale was not a far away, irrelevant incident. It was a red apple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once ... -- you'll learn it soon enough if you do commit. In fact, you'll see at it ... admits spend a weekend at MIT learning about our culture and getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the next sixty years, eight other organizations would form at different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... email came out, I’m really grateful I was at MIT.  It’s a scary time and ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... collide. I love nights when pset parties spread in the hallway at party o

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... be ascribed to not studying for long enough, but at some point “I just ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  began with absolutely no swimming at all. Not even floating. Just bobbing ... from back when I was five or so has me at some pool somewhere - I don ... to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory ... someone else's life at MIT: 6.131 Lab. 6.131 Lab, or Power Electronics is ... first place. At this time of year in many other classes, students are

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... . Please leave a message at an appropriate temporal distance from the beep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009