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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things, and many more, simultaneously. As such, the very idea that one can

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture, with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... visualized a banana, and I probably never will. I made the connection between this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... and a hug and have her favorite chocolate chip pancakes ready. The day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... recruit frosh"]Frat rush[/annotation] is happening as I write this, and one ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021