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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ’t bitten by a radioactive spider, he’s somebody who created a suit ... magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... friends: 1) sleep—if you don't sleep you will cease to function as a human ... your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... lift my instrument up. Blow. Nothing would come out. Panic. Shake. Get a ... am going to do it." Every little success felt tremendous (what? a note

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was ... towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... . I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  message by welcoming others to create a space that celebrates all of SHASS ... only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... incitement to celebrate SHASS, and giving a lucid, balanced explanation of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... opportunity to gain a different perspective and meet awesome people. So over the ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004