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  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana ... and work here. My mother was a bank teller, at the time, although she

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

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

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer ... couch, it would be at perfect armrest height. Its width would be exactly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning.[/annotation] Here at MIT, there is a system in place called Excused Absences, or, an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... have become a big believer in visuals. Look at this, and ask yourself ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... lying at you, and no - there is no conspiracy either). Therefore, you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  up to see above crowds at concerts. Everyone laughed when I talked ... floor of Stud, starting at 12 noon and ending around 1am. We did a lot of ... matlab"]course 6[/annotation] classes at MIT. At the next meeting, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... wrote with, and pointed it at the boat. the chopstick and the pen were ... at the water, look at other people's hair." wind direction was so vital

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... . There would still be friends hanging around campus, at least for a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  MIT has been different. Malingap is, when my first night at MIT, an ... . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  at 11 every day, which means I usually skip breakfast: when lunch is ... at the food truck and the line is suuuper long. I'm a little nervous ... (it's at Maseeh, about an 8-10 minute walk away), and my phone is at 2

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no ... forward again to see that you didn't. Laugh at how silly it all was. Wonder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... . They are about the many worlds which at once overlap with and stand apart ... ’t stop - I spent a long time lying awake at night thinking about many of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... , someone took notice of Milk and stared at his expiration date—October 20

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  Charles River at sunset this past summer. Another sunset over the Charles ... on the right. Boston and the Charles River at night.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012