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  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... ? First: Mom, Dad, and sis are doing really well.  We’re living in ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  high school doing this activity, I feel like it became an inseparable ... resounding "yes!" - congrats! "But- how do you do that?" Read on ;) (btw ... into something cool that you can do with your essay here, but please don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... together and do a bunch of math for a week. Thousands and thousands of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  MLK lol but i do identify with the combination of sensitive ... Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... like to think I do, because I really liked her character (I also suffer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... people with depression do. Instead, it felt like someone had scooped out ... for me to feel enough alarm to do anything about it. Sitting around all

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... ’t think I should even try. Fuck your shit, was my response. I’m doing this. I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  or skiing and me staying home to work. I wouldn’t do that. If I could do things over I would work less, kayak more, photograph more sunrises ... being completely honest about what I’d been doing since I sent my

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... true. I really need to do laundry, which means that all my usual shirts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do ... ’t do jumping exercises without hitting them or standing in particular

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  perfectly fine, if we do the same things from the outside. And yet, what can ... became depressed. I lost motivation to do schoolwork and spent a lot of my ... depressed. My mother berated me and warned me to never do that again. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  cube, as most 3D modeling softwares have buttons that'll do just that. In ... while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to ... . Others, like Rhino and SketchUp, have associated plugins that'll do it. To

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’s what I’ll do for you, I’ll add hot water to the cup, then pour espresso ... origin based on this linguistic tic, but I do not ask. “No, no just a ... .” “Really? Ours was very small, not many people wanted to do it.” “That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not ... wouldn't survive the weekend (he did! and he's doing wonderfully), an ... doing wasn't what I was really interested in. But coming across my usual

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ("department" - 100 words), What You Do That's Creative ("creativity" - 250 words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... I will do yoga. And I guess my time playing soccer hasn’t entirely ... do amazing things (including win a National Championship for us

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  entitled to politely anti-haze current members into doing tasks of their ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... until I asked my mom how she was doing multiple months later. I didn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023