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

  

  you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or ... say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You ... press yourself against the wall and hope they don’t see you, but they turn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... mini-rant. Have you ever considered how community service became the de ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  don’t get in on Wednesday, inhale, exhale, and move on without looking ... school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... company for de-stressing purposes. I turned the corner towards the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... ’s what love looks like. I don’t try to do the things I want to do and then ... ’m needed and necessary for all the things. Because I don’t need my value or

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't ... 're currently designing for the play Fetes de la Nuit as though it would be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  back home to Georgia, a short trip to Iceland (don’t ask), and a cross ... .” “Thank you.” “I’m so sorry about that, we don’t make that kind of coffee ... ; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea. I watched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , and you probably don’t have responsibilities to a family of your own yet ... Don’t Know What I’m Doing Become okay with not having all the answers ... ’m Doing When I Don’t Know What I’m Doing. That attitude, of confidently

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don't ... built the cognitive and intellectual tools to rapidly acquire and process ... they don't graduate. In fact, I can't think of a single one off the top

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  native tongue. If you know what to do you know what to do. If you don't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the ... said, don't change Edward. I don't say this in the sense of don't grow up

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  research and outreach at a planetarium, like Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could be ... don't remember me, but back in my freshman year I arranged a meeting ... you don't mind... Josh Winn: Of course! What followed blew my mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  help run cool events, including the Baker Foundation and the de Florez ... had closed, but de Florez was still offering up to [annotation note ... excited when we de Florez gave us money:  [caption id="attachment_57351

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  really a preview of what MIT will be like? I don’t think most pre ... have been putting more effort into de-stigmatizing depression and mental

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  I decided that one cul-de-sac was no riskier than the others, so I ... par with the Uffizi. I was just walking along, la-de-da, lookit that ... sounds like it’s from [annotation note="disclaimer: JK Rowling I don't love

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  collection of ramblings and loose ends that don’t deserve the term “novel”, don’t ... , Addis Ababa’s most rapidly developing district. Through xHub, I met Leul

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  cruft being like “huhh that’s odd.. I don’t remember Spinning Arts doing ... ocean is the depth at which the water temperature plummets rapidly. I

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  of course rapidly changing.) Still though, the gap has lingered, and a ... impair performance. I don’t think we have time to recount every one in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up ... humbled me so much, this semester. I don’t know what’s going on in the ... . I am drowning and doing my absolute best to keep afloat, but I don’t

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for me there. But I don't want to say goodbye to East Campus. I bumped ... knowing when "one day" will be. I don't want to say goodbye, unwilling to ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in

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

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

  

  . This includes making sure that you don’t overcommit and don’t let ... a fantastic place, but you don’t have to deal with that level of ... months to even get acclimated to a company like that, so I don’t see myself

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014