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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , but I can start with the ones I do know the names of. There's the ... ask myself. What do I want to be more vulnerable about? It may seem

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  by myself. I think maybe the talking or affirming I do when feasting ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... and community-based organizations, but I swear I'm doing work and

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any ... students do. However, as part of the Turning the Tide report, we have also ... responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... 's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , cj and claire, the main thing you'll do is tacking. i'll handle the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra about doing it? And so, we have not one, but two completely separate sets ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... curiosities and dreams, but I don’t know what to do with that. I want to learn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... otherwise would have no power to do. That’s what engineers do, right? They fix

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... taking an Uber to the airport when the driver asked what I do.  Me: “I use

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... 't seem as terrible anymore. When I told my mom that we planned on doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  't even have my license yet. But none of this has to do with my intelligence ... to do with my intelligence; I'm just rambling. You got A's because you ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do ... great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022