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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... this year, I’m writing this blog, which includes... First, the things I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... , of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

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

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... people’s minds so they come away carrying something valuable. I began blog

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects ... months later, I am now officially declared as 6-3, a computer science major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... other, I went down to the basement to walk through the tunnel that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start off that way regardless.) I'm Cam, your newest (and slowest, but I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020