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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... either of those classes either. But there is nothing really I can do right now except study anyway. Or quit. But quitting is not an option for me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  , but this isn't even a water bed. This is all water, no bed. No mattress ... challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really mean to say is that it's probably possible to do every p-set here at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... (and teenage angst) from my high school days, which I think is maybe

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Note: Writing here is joint between Rona and Paolo, except when ... -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  , and sadness is simply amazing and worth living for. I am valued in this ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... , my experience with depression made me reflect deeply on what is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... readers, I obviously mean just my mom, and today is my mom's birthday, so ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... : “The shortest distance between two points is reliably a straight line. If ... , because it is the only way I might reach across impossible distances, the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... always looked so ahead of you is not that they were smarter, but because ... ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big ... links and brief descriptions. UPDATE 4/15/15 This is the first day I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... , and an increased sense of affection for what is mechanically no more ... state of mind, all like, “Okay, this is what’s happening, p-sets and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  money I get for this blog post goes toward Legos. “This building is 16 ... that MIT is hard. It’s not just the workload. There’s this feeling that ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  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 ... . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015