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

  

  us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes ... , superior, but the differences cannot be resolved. Harvard and MIT are two T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  something special to the table, even if you're not entirely sure what that ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... , if I can handle it. Then there are the random engineering disciplines ... ’m good at, I would be a very happy person if I were able to make that kind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm-to ... bloggers care to complain/rave? 3. I should have stated this at the outset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... , seems to be returning to the Milky Way from a delivery to a very distant ... image search.”) is at the entrance to the bathroom. I suspect it may be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  the world tell you who you have to be and what it looks like to be ... you should speak if you want to be respected. This is how you should dress if you want to fit in with the elite. The world will tell you, "oh

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  when I'm sleep-deprived, the same way that I would be really unhappy if I ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  in around a week.  The problem seems to be that we're running ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the ... person I want to be and the people I've been over the past two years; I ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  would be a sorry place if its students were unwilling to pause for horse ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life. I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  better if I wasn't being forced to pretend all the time. It was all ... metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it ... to stay in the Philippines. She called my dad, who was shocked, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... did use the react feature a lot. I wanted to see if my reacts differed ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016