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

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

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

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

  

  Down the Hawk back in Grenada, I was nearly out of books. I went to a ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... . Lastly, array this cube in a 25x25 array, and you're done. As you can ... mastering the art of clearing out old ingredients, and I've already got a few

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Squares dance, I asked Alex about the room. It turns out Alex only lived in ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  were in, though, I stopped worrying. It was out of my control. If ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... . I just want to reach out to the applicants who read descriptions of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  figure out what classes they actually want to take. Some people still can ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... in your life when you can. If you write your best papers the night

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... be a lot more of the same. A lot of “I don’t feel left out exactly, but

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  people in the ESP team volunteered to help out, I still ended up ... as you can imagine, people in ESP like figuring out logistics. We also ... issue and now i cant deal with it everyone else in esp is out there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... significant. (I mean, like, not to freak you out if you don't feel that way

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... dropped Analysis after 3 all-nighters. In October, I sought a reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015