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

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... to go to a yoga studio on our way back, so we kept walking to Central

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to ... of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... is a beautiful film, even if the physics does get artistically bent on ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get ... "]reason."[/annotation] Aristotle goes on to argue that that virtue is itself a [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get ... wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you're in your room, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  . Do the things that matter to you, not just things to tick off on your ... ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... time to just stay in my room with the doors closed, put on some good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... semester, an exciting new resource called Interstellar was born! Interstellar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a ... memories to be made, new stories to be told, and new friends with whom to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  several things. 1. You get to choose your living group. Each living group ... to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want ... 't have those priorities, and that's okay. You get to choose your own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... . Getting rained on, naulanan, causes sickness, often colds. Lots of songs ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  's currently working on a video game. Spring 2009 to Spring 2012: Ben Y. '12 ... Apple. Fall 2000 to Spring 2001: Jeanne S. '01. Jeanne lives in New York ... interviewed to be the GRT on the floor after I had left and asked if I lived on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... again—on walks to and from work, at my desk while writing, and lying in ... paradise, to starting new chapters, to Premiere Pro’s easy to use effects, to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  something to define yourself other than your intelligence." This was a worry ... , and that was delicious. It was refreshing to just be normal. On the ... , on a random day during senior week, Shuli and I wandered down to Quincy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022