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

  

  me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  bad – "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," The Narcissist Cookbook I know I usually ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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?

  

  EC Gothic, authored by East Campus, the residents and the mailing list ... decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner 2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my horror, that the HASS-D lottery ended yesterday. Also, that HASS-D's aren

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... 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

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender ... ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot ... episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active ... from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

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

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ="Freshman year was Madrid, sophomore year was Tokyo"]the United States ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024