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

  

  to reach out and get help. Here are just a few of the awesome resources ... to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... numb. A panic attack occurs when the anxiety gets too much, and can

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

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  unpublished blog material. The length went from 36 pages to several hundred. It ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... computer was my dad’s old Dell, which ran Windows XP. The system gets slower

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... about a minute to get the words together to tell them the good news. My ... managed to get a complete sentence out through the tears. IHTFP but that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  down to the deadline...it came right down to the deadline. Getting ... pretty psyched to get in). The reviewers leave comments and suggestions for ... value, getting rid of the watermark in the draft, and trying to fit those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  this: create an index by multiplying SAT score and GPA. Rank-order the ... Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... individualistic, slightly different from the page that sat next to it. Some had ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  number of different coding projects for students to get exposure to the ... by year. For more specific details pertaining to the dates of the ... there get to rank up to 15 of the 52 universities that Questbridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• 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 ... “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily ... , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of the first dorms in 1916, followed by further dorm expansions in the 1920

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  programme in this front page, yet later in the catalog we get the spelling ... numbers. The alumni directory of this catalog refers to the courses by their ... catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of

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

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... change day by day, to wiring or plumbing that only get replaced every few ... Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... regularly to ask what the secret is to getting in. My answer hasn't changed ... Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020