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  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... , beating up on myself just makes things worse. Sometimes the best thing to do ... opening. I got closer to some of my old friends and started making new ones

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear! Panic! To address the worry that follows the question what if I actually

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to ... open the window by epsilon” Translation: “I’m going to open the window a ... -noise-ratio drops and the harder it is to make out the music (signal) amidst the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  decided to make use of my aloneness by putting Hell Above on full blast ... high school and so this kind of makes sense. Listening to TFB was really ... I would listen to around this phase. 2014 Forest Hills Drive by J

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  graduating seniors, Lauren and Julia, and we were determined to make it one of ... In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  to make it shorter next year. Upstairs I try to take a nap, but am ... prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  ones, organizing social gatherings and doing their best to make sure ... in high school. I was mostly busy studying; I would make excuses to not ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  reacted to different shapes and velocities, the researchers did make ... nation's economy (by ensuring that people actually get up and go to work ... make sure that your ideas stand up to all of them, which is ikispiration

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  International or to make friends with that one kid you've had Spanish with all ... practice your conversational skills by telling you to describing your family ... " never fails to make me laugh. Just thought I'd share....) Right. Moving

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  , though. And in a way, it was a mixed blessing to not be hired by the EMS ... credit, so pocket change is a bit hard to come by. But otherwise my Cataldo ... company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  Admissions. But what we mean by match - and what match means to you - isn ... culture, the ethos just make sense to me. I picked my first college on the ... pleasure, and a privilege, working with you. Stay cool. You're going to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  to make it vegan by substituting dairy with coconut milk, but even with ... many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] it's crazy that they hire live sax players to make the hold

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven't been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  interactions for a secret to be kept that long or even at all. 6) Studying by ... making deliberate efforts to wear different outfits. Usually that just ... couldn’t coordinate our outfits to be different. By chance, it worked out

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  ! To Sarah: Come to CPW before you make a judgment. It's a lot more ... , your concern does not seem to be "will my child make it at MIT or how ... school that can make anyone "reach" to their fullest potential provided

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing ... sample" each year to make sure our writing skills were progressing ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  unless I have to make some sort of leap. 2. I’ve changed as a person ... defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  . Large nearby houses that make me feel conflicted about whether I want to ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016