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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  the river multiple times a month with the singular intention to go to ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... people reach out to me and tell me they relate, and we have a nice

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... , though. (Bonus thought: would you have to report genetic editing on your ... reading this post: take some time out of your summer to read books!  

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  ranked, and by the time he was accepted, he had been to Junior Olympics ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In ... about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have

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

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be ... , and to use the extra time we'll have to try getting an artistic job ... on a lot more groups projects, we'll be able to have more discussions

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... process. PRCs are meant to be an unbiased sounding board, and we are your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . Incomplete, but I still have an abundance of time and places left to go ... still have a lot of time to figure all of this stuff out. But the ... paragraphs. Proceed at your own risk.) This time last year, I was finished

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  -wracking because i have no idea what days/times they're going to be released but also ... (especially when i feel productive) because i have a tendency to over ... briefly freaked out about the possibility that i would have decided to

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... didn't make this one long enough to have proper leverage, so it only ... was time to pivot to the final project:   dragon sword!!!! I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  about MIT is that this place does break you down. It doesn’t have to break ... challenge you is an experience most people who come to MIT have never had ... when it comes to technology. (Sadly, I do not have Tony Stark

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  will have to complete an add-drop form if you want to make any changes ... freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don ... kinda takes away all your free time) and I'm venturing out on a new cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to ... , check the hour, and cry. Figure out how to feed myself at regular times

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  only advice that I have is to keep talking. If you’re having trouble ... have gaps in my memory from that time that will probably never be filled ... telling people I was having mental health issues only ever made them want to

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... still find time to put together amazing things. (Interestingly enough, two

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... doesn’t have to struggle like we did—once you’ve been through that, you ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  things you probably have difficulty imagining your online life without ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... very personal to me. Yours have been, too. And that's okay. We are ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... have to helping other people. It can be as trivial as cheering up a ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011