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  demons on depression

  

  could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana; it's just bringing to mind what a banana looks like. I have never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Zoom rooms worked out, and built a lot of infrastructure to make it ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... over us like a palpable shroud. I was already dangerously close to being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  before it went to Terminal A, we got to make our one and only stop which ... . We shared a lot of MBTA facts with each other, probably enough to make ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , and I think it'll be a while before a Hunt makes it to a museum. Its ... burnout is to remove the physical logistics entirely. Why can't making a ... demand, it's hard to [annotation note="If someone makes a prediction market

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... for the more ambitious (which makes for a total of 4,900+ options). You ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ". They shortly put up a Caltech vs. MIT website to "keep score", although ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... merged to a single Campus Preview weekend. It was held [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... same time, I think it's incredibly dishonest to hide behind a blanket

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  my smartpen*. You see, the plan was to make a pencast of the address ... President, and he says hi to you while you make a scene and draw the gazes of ... Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... 's 9:10 AM. You have a 9:30 AM class in Building 5. Can you make it to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  throw a shirt on and stumble to class, just making it there before the ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s vaguely about linguistics, even though my actual job is designing a website ... to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a ... , but collectively, it was a poor choice to have said yes to so many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015