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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... alarm and slept again. I woke up at 4:15 AM the next morning. Time is not ... "unpacking emotions" is that it starts with the assumption that I had emotions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting ... posts sounded a bit artificial. I then got very busy. This is the hardest ... admissions officer. The only rule is that I don't make stuff up about this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... room. However, there is a narrow, uneven, paved parking spot next to the ... 's almost October, the Z is closed to non-campus staff through the rest of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post ... a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... 'm already stressed about it. The end result of these conversations is always the same ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... here are some pictures I took leading up to the move. This is what my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... room is covered in things that fly -- planes hanging from the ceiling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really ... turn around and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that struck the core of the conversation. “My name is Austin Thompson ... to escape to is where I live and where I’m experiencing the unbelonging ... to impact this country, but is going to impact the world. I’m learning

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

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

  

  health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each ... cut off from the bonds that connected us. The truth is everyone is ... living next to you is doing. The world needs us. That’s why we are all at

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... -wide wifi is unbeatable and oh-I-miss-it-so. Anywhere else – Starbucks, on the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the ... . When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• 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.

  

  .) 9:53 AM: Back to pset. mCPBA is the most commonly used peroxyacid to ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is ... 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

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part ... point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the ... now need to decide what you want. Obviously, the hard part is only if

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  amused. “Yes, um, this is the wrong way.” He helped with the bags, led me ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... is difficult to understand the red apple that others keep talking about ... , the morning before that meeting. “This meeting, " he said, "is the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• 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 ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... the smartest person in the room is, or the zoom chat or whatever, I tell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’ve frantically emailed the admissions office after realizing you made a horrible ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... Materials Science is the one I’ve most heavily considered). A lot of these

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015