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  demons on depression

  

  suicidal when she has never felt that way? How was it possible for anyone to ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... & White’s "The Elements of Style" after my decision to change from

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it ... wanted to take a picture and turn it into a full-on solar cell. Creating

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... wanted the earliest possible showing, and it just so happened that the AMC

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  her a second to figure it out. We freaked out as quietly as possible so ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... check. I tried to be all nonchalant about it so my mom wouldn’t see my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to write a bio application about it weeks ago, but I emailed her back pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  after a few years — and if so, what could I possibly move on to? To be ... , you aren't beholden to that path forever. It's always possible to change ... . But I didn’t expect that when it came time to write that blog, I would

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  missed my post-JAMB and after it became clear that I would have to wait at ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... about it. I was given rare access to the internet to find out more about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... just need to see an example, but another might need to see it graphically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... comprehensively or perfectly) depict the range of possibilities. And it also shows

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

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  attend to. And, well, enjoy life. It’s so much less stressful after MIT ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my ...  click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... newsfeed, my twitter, my Facebook, everything… hoping to see closure. And it

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it ... the future. freshman fall: it's okay to drop things Perhaps best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left-hand corner. My idea needs 100 votes to make it to the second round, and the ... receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  -frosh actually believe that it’s going to be as fun and happy as that weekend, but ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... with people in that stage of life, and it was strangely comforting to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... neighbors, making it difficult to track specific colonies’ survival. You ruin ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... . No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019