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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... succeed in the things you want to do, you must learn the art of eating shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to ... better minute by minute.’” i don’t believe in chi, but i do believe that ... friends i wanted or what i wanted to do with them; i was more focused on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... dull, who doesn't aspire to do anything particularly ambitious or ... ? but rather as does this person care about the same things as me? What do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  make my environment work for me was not something I had the power to do ... how many students out there are doing just well enough to avoid being ... classes I observe do a lot of work in small groups, and both teachers often

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  happened and to walk exactly the way you’re used to, even if doing so makes ... footsteps in a way that minimized pressure on my right foot, and after doing ... anyway, in response to all this i am doing a few things differently to take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve ... Amazing Spider-Man comics from 2001 onwards. I tried do a little bit of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... _row images="72280,72279,72278,72277" caption="admittedly, i do not have a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... have continued playing dumb (“Portland—do you wanna know the exact ... if this had anything to do with me. I did not know what to do besides

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... lot more deliberate about taking time for myself every day to do ... warmer, or calling friends and family, cleaning, doing yoga, biking

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... sad that there are many things that you cannot do to spend your days in the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... “deepest secrets”, and it’s been more object-level. more how are you doing ... productive, are you on top of your classes? do you still feel anxious about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... hard, make all the cheatsheets, do the practice tests, go to office hours

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... . Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was ... pallet of beautiful teak or mahogany, nor do I have anywhere near the skill required to do those materials the justice they would deserve. So instead, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  .  People are good, I really do believe that. When you don’t know what to do, remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... wanted so badly to just do all the things! But a lot of times, this would

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous ... 'm still stressed and busy, still without enough time to do it all, to keep ... tasks on my to-do list that I had neglected. Then came yet another soul

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  next year, hopefully teach you what not to do. I started early. Like ... ;_< >_>), but this time I was doing great! I finished up a few drafts ... just listed things I liked to do/did for my community. It was incredibly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  . What do you want to do? Erg/elliptical/bike/run? Watch TV? Play pool? How ... for later): 1) Do I need a mini fridge? Are you on a meal plan? If the ... to the Z Center and Student Center so what more do you need. Also

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange ... sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . Rarely do I feel like I can really be 100% myself around people, especially

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  't worry too much about the 8.01 test you didn't do so hot on; it doesn ... -- stay up late like you're already doing, since you won't get many ... enjoy it! Go do as many cool things as you can -- it will be so hard to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016