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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... because you tried. Every year around this day, I try to make an encouraging ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  good. And if you feel up to it, I hope you try making a "2014 ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  of cells. I also wanted to avoid making it like a pet or anything you ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• 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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... I had a friend crazy enough to want to make a documentary with me

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

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  makes sense?), and is a great segue to my last procrastination tip, which ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers-by ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... done to trust your gut, especially when it tells you to make a choice you ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  pleasantly surprised by the openness of a lot of students to make a change in ... Black Engineers is a great place to find internships and make connections ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  to listen; they did not brush me off by telling me that dropping a ... MIT going through the ups-and-downs together—to make the world a much ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a phrase best voiced by a euphemism, someone walks past you saying, “That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014