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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... "]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... OME. The advisor I talk about here, Somiya, was my secondary advisor my

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... this year, I’m writing this blog, which includes... First, the things I

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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... , of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for ... yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... people’s minds so they come away carrying something valuable. I began blog

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects ... months later, I am now officially declared as 6-3, a computer science major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... other, I went down to the basement to walk through the tunnel that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start off that way regardless.) I'm Cam, your newest (and slowest, but I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Hi! I’m Laura ’09. You may remember me from such blog posts as What ... .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014