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• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  that’s not what I want. I don’t feel completely overwhelmed. People always talk about drinking from the firehose at MIT, but I don’t feel like ... cracks. Now it's Sunday, the weekend is over, and I don’t know when my next

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don't ... yogurt I don't have the measurements, unfortunately, as I just kind of ... #babyboybakerboy. What team are you? #TeamPeetaisUseless? Or #TeamPeetaisMyBabyShutUpDont

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  you have this uncertainty. you don’t know exactly how many points you ... what happens after that? i don’t know. i could be staying here for even ... summer. i told him that i’m fine. i’ll be fine, as long as i don’t think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  ? What if I make a mistake? I don’t know why I tried doing it anyway. But ... being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... bullets. It was pretty fun. I still don’t understand everything that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don't ... use some practice being a leader. i don't think i naturally tend towards ... don't have confidence in sabre fencing, you will probably lose right of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... . These are your glory days. You're going to want to remember them. Don't ... everywhere. It sucks when you don't know those people's names. Don't beat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  have no idea what I am doing. I don't know if I want to be a [annotation ... !"]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I don't know which schools to apply to in the ... of the summer, but I don't think I have [annotation note="the premise

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  and even failing tests, and you feel like you're stupid and you don't ...  suddenly find that you don't have a group of friends, and most friend groups have ... most upperclassmen aren't, or at least don't feel that way. I personally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... have 24-hour study spaces, which don't have access to actual books but can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  times where things don’t feel like they’re falling into place and you need ... I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I blame myself when stuff don’t turn out the way I intended. Obviously

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

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  little. It’s so important not to prioritize career over family. You don’t ... , sometimes until they die. And you don’t know what you are holding together in ... I had lost everything. I think that’s the lowest I’ve been. I don’t

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  are clinically depressed. if you don't assign any value to human pleasure, don't you just become completely apathetic? i'm thinking of my ... that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ’t think of better advice. I don’t blame them, certainly, they were just trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... often longer days. We don’t wake up at 8 and sleep at 8 every day--if you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  details because I don’t feel like it. In essence, the situation did not play ... meeting people, don’t you,” said Rob. It wasn’t a question, but I answered ... know them, which makes them think I intend to. I don’t. Sometimes I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... are called examples papers here), and I found that most people don't ... and only for your own learning, but I don't think many people really

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  point of going to a campus preview weekend if you don't go home with a ... weekend - Don't pay for ANYTHING (except for maybe MIT clothes like a ... the time).  Go find free food!! - Don't just do academic things - It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don't ... , Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1965. ----- "baby don't worry / you are my ... on a sweater :P) ----- "you can never say never / while we don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  they don't match up to the scores of the people on College Confidential ... feeling? ---- Alas, I had digressed much. The bottom line is: You don't need to buy a book of collected college essays. You don't need to read

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... I don't think it's especially common or encouraged.) When freshmen ... while we're all friends, we don't necessarily share the same views on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  . When you write your essay, don't write with a specific audience in mind. Don't say the things that you think the admissions officers "want" to hear. When you do the interview, don't try to second-guess your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007