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  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 ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that

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

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and travel to Europe (or do the Cambridge-MIT Exchange); have a romantic ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... Center holding my name badge and a newly earned certificate and dragged my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  this point, do not merit a debate. Because sometimes, there aren’t two ... do paid work. True. “Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... friends at 2am. Do a burger run at 1am. Drink a milkshake at midnight. But

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  ?" and I am currently unable to think. Do I hear a weed-eater or a ... barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that a couple did, but that's beside the point.) Many have had their own ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  can take a break, do something i enjoy now, and figure it out later ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  institutum, meaning a custom, a habit, a way-of-doing things. More than brick ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  academic advisor (Dr. Ann Graybiel, a really cool person doing really cool ... , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don ... Claire S. '25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011