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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... doc with some details that I gave to artists. This turned out to be a ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more, worse. I suffer from a (chronic) condition known as “need-to ... every time you join a club or an organization -Feeling the need to ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  a utilitarian really mattered that much to me. It’s easier said than ... gut feeling much clearer to me. I got a bit lost walking to Kendall ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... sent to several sororities, telling them about a new contest that ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.] ... ) Sometimes you need to impulsively hit that “Send” button.. There were many times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• 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 to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  time, you’ll need to distance yourself from the process a bit. Care about ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... "] dancing 100[/caption] The Guild owes much to its alumni. We have a long ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure ... got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006