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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the tests for her. I can't complete the projects or lab work for her. But, I ... listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  , hopelessly confused, and I can (sometimes) instantly recognize their problem ... lots more groups of people. I can see other people's connections to each other, and that makes me think about what connections they have that I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... pressures that I can disclose was feeling this strange, existential crisis for ... recently; I think within the last three years or so. During the week, you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• 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 ... . I can’t spend more than fifteen minutes without opening Discord or ... . I can’t really work when I’m hungry, which is when I wake up. And I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... lungs, I can run, and I can breathe. As David Foster Wallace says, this is ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... science, I can see myself working at a big tech company, not behind the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  classroom from the window. I can wear mismatched socks and plop down on the ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ™. I think I held 4 phones in this time span which looking back does not ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... with bacteria, because I need to prepare some more DNA tomorrow so I can ... experiments I can do at once without a) making stupid mistakes or b) having my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  , when I can’t go apple picking because I’m hosed, and when the faces ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... this year, I’m writing this blog, which includes... First, the things I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan ... developers might know, because I can't maintain Hydrant forever. Leave the ... Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009