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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are ... post. These letters were originally written for my blogger application for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... math books for fun. I remember owning this one book about mathematical ... for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he ... , and he’s here. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) granted ... before. DACA has been expanded and the age cutoff for applying has been

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a parent, sibling or other relative. For others it is a friend, teacher

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... some advice for those of you worried about writing, or worried about

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I ... the subject, her passion for climate and her belief that climate change

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let the chance experiences and adventures serve as a guide for what’s next

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... meter! Since MIT.nano’s inception, researchers have used the space for ... : Each silicon wafer can fit 25 solar cells, so we had space left for other

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015