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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  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 embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• 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
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... how to meditate. Non-thinking lets your mind recharge, so you can ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  truly offer you advice on how to make it all feel better, especially when ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  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 ... need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned ... the very least, I learned how to be a better friend. Play fair. Five

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of 2012, you can and should get your copy of How To Get Around MIT this ... -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Beach, and I'll complain about how I hate getting sand on my feet. Or we ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... shop at Newbury; we could go to Prudential and complain about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... lead to a lot more than an admissions decision. If you get in on ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to figure out where on this diagram we want to fall. But now, with a year into ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  friend, to walk out of your dorm room now and genuinely ask how the person ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009