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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... used to be beyond my wildest dreams, and I'm glad that I got the ... will miss the orange chicken and rice more than anybody should ever have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... available here (eventually a more-official-looking version will be made ... dry-mouthed because of being up late afterpartying at sigep, but the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... , and events will keep happening through the end of April. I hosted an

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

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

  

  one moment. Because I moved, I met the people who I know will someday be ... back to California to start medical school, where I will be wearing flip ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless ... the hospital." "You had to be there; it was AWESOME."). 9:14 PM ... from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... the time that I didn’t have to be around other people, I would retreat ... might seem pretty basic, but you’d be surprised how in the busyness of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... be on the other.  I was thinking as I walked back from lab about how ... was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... goals for next semester and 2019, I will admit. I think these are the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  think MIT will be a very high reach” “I think your best shot would be ... thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... anxious about the application process. JUST KIDDING! Absolutely everything

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably ... . Behind the volunteer, there will be big piles of big bags of these clothes ... wrote: “do the thing, and you will be given the power.” The Stoics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  , and when I realize that the future isn’t the answer and never will be ... the fall semester, only to be unearthed again over [annotation note ... careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... 2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will ... and bounds past what I’d planned. The words I wrote on the road would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the person I will become at the end of these four years will be hireable ... already know what they want to do, the sense that they will be miles ahead ... want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. The conversations end

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  the first place. And not because this will make writing your personal ... should and could be. The field of biotechnology changed pretty ... The Thing. Don’t try to be memorable or unique. Most people aren’t (I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  but failed to meet the expectations of my supervisor. I felt guilty ... with MIT’s fast pace. They are some of the strongest human beings I know ... struggling through the same things together. Each one of us can be vulnerable

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

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  split the loot between the three of us, you know, being all polite even if ... snake can beat the snake challenge. And some people might be inherently ... be below a sign, in the middle of a wall, behind a railing, blending in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  the lab, suggested to me, “It would be cool if you could make this more ... to spare. I’m not sure how much the reviewers will like it (I’ll find ... fire that accurately describe the MIT experience. Ironically people also

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021