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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  display I'd use to play dance videos whenever I needed a break. Pros ... "] credit to joonho, again[/caption]   Pros so much natural light ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... was far too late to drop the class, and I needed it to complete my minor ... reasons, but so much of it felt like my own fault, like something I had to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  and hardworking, you won’t need that perfect school to succeed. You can ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  would give us), so we needed to be extra speedy to solve all the puzzles ... out that my puzzle was the last puzzle we needed to escape! So with just ... and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  still love writing more than pretty much anything else, I don’t want to ... ...that’s much more amorphous. I think it’ll take me years to understand what I ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  did Joan Didion, why does anyone? Because we want to write about ... they needed to be. Now, on this airplane with ink-stains all over my ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to learn as much as possible while we were filming my video. I badgered ... there to help out with whatever the most urgent needs of the production ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  complained that they really need to fix their broken app so that the other 3 ... bit, but obviously not nearly as much as I thought. We'd still like to ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008