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  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 ... reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... your voice loud enough to speak over loud and large crowds of people

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . instead of stubbornly forcing myself to enjoy something i used to like, i ... brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... a source of comfort to a drag. or when, last friday, i had dinner with

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and ... , going to the Weekend was correlated with enrolling. One of the important

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... , the dark grid of windows a stark contrast to the talk and laughter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a good day. Most of their parents are middle to upper class, working ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to

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

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... group of students to give Institutional Endorsements to. Everything

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging ... Facebook statuses to the irritatingly unpredictable nature of MIT printers ... skill of cleverly manipulating ...integrands - a.k.a. functions to be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... a lot of time to yourself to just think. These past four years have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... attendance sheets every day of the year generally got them to knowing about how ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself ... because it’s an of-the-moment thing that seems important to know, but it was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... want to work first) I was left with a feeling of real panic and (somewhat ... especially like how the book reflects some of my own feelings back to me

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

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  me, saying Yes instead of No. But I forced myself to stay true to my ... Adults (if that wasn't already expected of us to begin with). Just ... be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006