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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  . Instead, you are asked to apply that knowledge to new situations on the exam ... attack when you check exam grades on Stellar. Set up your laptop to print ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’m building new tools to study the interaction between tuberculosis and its host ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... on about, say, a sandwich I ate at the student center, or a new haircut

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  on to who I thought I was. I remember letting go. I remember accepting ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... came on stage to introduce the 2020 Ring Committee. They had microphones ... your voice loud enough to speak over loud and large crowds of people

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

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

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed ... ), so there's always plenty of time to have your points heard. 2:26 -- I ... home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  and to quickly dump their knowledge on how the club/performances should ... [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to ... the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a ... on doing the issue, as it's past midnight and the issue is supposed to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and ... dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Grand Canyon. I made connections on my new floor that took me to Haiti ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on ... minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you ... occasionally to think out loud with his hands extremely close to your face, or to encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009