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  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a ... 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

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was ... to actively put yourself out of your comfort zone as often as possible

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... ? Sure, it's safe to get strawberry (that's what I always get. XP) But why

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through ... .” “And what are my priorities?” “You’re willing to maintain your mental

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... there: sometimes I get too tired to fold my laundry and just fall asleep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... exploring new countries (like when she went to Iceland last summer!). She

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... being lifted off your shoulders, and then that weight getting placed by ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  inclined to take any of his classes anymore. Brave New World by Aldous ... float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... getting ready to one day go to college, and suddenly COVID was supposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no ... me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday night in Boston. After getting new boarding passes, I then realized that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... devoted to. As the semesters went by, I developed priorities alongside ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014