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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any ... later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... hour, I eventually, slowly pulled myself out of bed. Though I had never

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  soften on the asphalt if you stand around. You’re three hours past a ... ’d look up a coffee shop and head there to write. After some hours ... took an hour. After that I’d head to some parking lot, where I would cook

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  empty spot, especially during lunch hours BCS Tea Room (46-6005) located ... booked super fast 2nd Floor Pros natural light large tables quiet ... like I'm going insane if I'm here for more than two hours Barker Library

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  fast paced nature of computer science research. Conference peer review ... until the wee hours of the morning to obtain last minute results. It was ... suddenly had two classes (25’s & 24’s) who have never spun [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... .A. ‘19 Early Action story: The decision came out a couple hours after ... out, it worked too well. About an hour after the decisions came out, my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... stories so much richer. 24) It's okay to want to love yourself, and it ... world may seem fast-paced, but don't be in a rush. You're allowed to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation ... he said it went well. The Music of Celeste, an entire one-hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , is the English requirement: an hour-long essay "on some subject ... -year undergraduates are required to take two general studies subjects: "forty-five hours during the first term and seventy-five hours during the second term". This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what was to come, and it had, until now. I thought that through my fasting I ... my mother’s life. The same day, hours before her death, that I promised

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard ... hour, which is 50 body lengths per second, roughly equivalent to a human running 3 times as fast as a car on the highway. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours ... expectations. An obvious effect is hard, fast-paced classes: not only will you ... because you’re the kind of person who might love it. Life moves fast here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  the 24-hour mark, I had only my second cup of the not-so-Moroccan mint ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  -nights, which take around four hours. Ten-days are a commitment, but it's not like you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 ... . A ten-day game in IAP sounds like a lot, but I enjoyed every hour of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... L, 21W, 24), and joined and left clubs. Sometimes I tossed something ... House, New House, MIT Admissions, 24.900, MTG, Course 8, and so on. Some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... ’ll be an hour late, we can finish what we have right now.” We went back

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  depths for hours, but it refuses to go away. Kim D. ‘18 The MIT Media Lab ... full time UROP for the summer. You know you can only be paid for 40 hours ... ME FIRST REMEMBER ME FAST The hand wilts. You pick up your stylish

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I ... and Wednesday nights for about three hours each!) Get sick of working on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  airport. We drove there in slight glum, the events of the past hour hanging ... hard and as fast as any legs could move, but he didn’t win, which wasn ... posed a slight problem. Sometimes, I would speak too fast, and would often

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  slowly over the course of 24 hours in an annealer, and glass lab students ... just an hour away, there doesn't really feel like a point to eating again ... time, which means that classes start five minutes after the hour and end

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022