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  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 ... ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it ... felt like the beginning of the school year, oddly enough. There were cars

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  like you are competing to gain a good understanding of the material so ... at MIT - you can really focus on getting a good grasp of the material ... will give you a good picture). Are you at the top of the class, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I

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

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a great deal of emotional energy has been invested into. Regardless of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next ... deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... , including the endorsement, was shipped off to one of 16 Districts in early

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... , just across the river from Boston, lies the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game ... completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... . 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

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course ... , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... a stretch of time found it confined. The Bonfire Resident perhaps came across this carton a couple of times over the next few months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of ... is not an individual or collective failure of the blogs or the bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018