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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  started by blogger Danny B.D.!) that lets you lay out your class schedule ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... ’s adorable. And your enthusiasm is great. P.S. - I wanted to clarify that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  , surrounded by decorations that remind me of how hard I worked to get to MIT ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to ... always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going ... prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... 't know the people there...I get distracted too easily by anyone I know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• 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

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... , back in London, my friends and I used to hide in trees and alarm passers-by by bursting into song; Davie said that he used to do the same. At 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  feeling to know that you’re not alone and that there are so many people ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you ... occasionally to think out loud with his hands extremely close to your face, or to encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... or academic issues forced your hand, well, that’s hard enough to admit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014