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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  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 ... didn't anticipate) turned out juuuuuust fine. I'm hopeful I can carry

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  squeezing my stomach in their fist? Why can't I get out of bed in the morning ... 't always be in control, but I can find what I can control and find solace in ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... have much experience with dating altogether, and dating in college can be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... out. The vast majority of MIT undergraduates major in something ... optimistic-everything-will-work-out way, and other times in a pessimistic

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... every single email that said, “I’m reaching out because I’m interested in ... multiple people in the department to whom I could reach out for help if I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  couldn't figure things out on their own. By second semester freshman year I ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... with a coffee table. I planned out the shape and size over IAP and bought all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... gotten in. Hobbies I’d never heard of, towns I’d only heard of, and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually, considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  enjoyed trying out new techiques in making Hydrant, I stuck to what future ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

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

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016