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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... . On the bright side, though, those obligations can also contract to fit ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I

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

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  sitting on your desktop that refuses to get shorter? Is it a person that you ... services and ask for advice on getting accommodations for your exam you are ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... was going to be on a panel at SDCC, which she then found) over Tumblr ... based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  fonts on supplemental materials, is going to make your application more or ... area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... refers to the observed phenomenon that making decisions depletes your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you ... ? Binging Avatar video essays and calling people to rant about Avatar. On one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... write something. My secret mental goal was to try and get at least seven

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  you get your resume down, the rest is completed on autopilot. You fill ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’m building new tools to study the interaction between tuberculosis and its host ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  tell you what to base your worth in, but try not to center it on grades ... activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... internship the summer after junior year on a chemistry textbook to study for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content ... wanted to get done over the long weekend, and on that list were three blogs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... content), I finally get around to completing it. With everything in place in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly ... -JAMB). Due to great restriction on the number of Nigerian universities I could ... specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• 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?

  

  . ‘17 You are sitting in the courtyard. You check your email. New email to ... smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . You’ve been inside since 11am, trying to get your circuit to generate

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . He proceeded to get really excited and started going on and on about ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018