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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... who are registered at MIT. You can gain tap access to the Cheney Room by ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  ), and it was amazing to be constantly surrounded by people who were driven ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... % of students will have gone to get mental health help. And that ... -connected with old friends and took life day by day. I started to feel like myself

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  , dedicated to Downtown Boston. Boston Common Located conveniently by the Park ... science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... that’s a bit more complicated than to “stop being affected by stereotypes

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• 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 ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... hear is slightly different. They don’t have to worry about getting sick ... returners, “You may get addicted to going on leave.” He explains: the world

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... could I define myself by claiming to be one of them. Three I’m gay. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... , which I tried to capture by separating them into different categories ... physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... 2024 to get to know BC since the Class of 2023 might be barred from ever ... able to get BC shirts! Here's the design: [caption id="attachment_53779

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... so many conversations with so many people to get me here, but I am here

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

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

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  commands one by one via an arduino, but when we tried to send commands from the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... exhausted by 10pm when the lab closed -- I could barely stay awake to hang

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020