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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy something, keep reading. You go into the Dunkin' to buy something. You ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the 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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  student group called Next Queer. One of their initiatives was to buy pride ... was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... still pretty sure that she was going to Georgia Tech, and then Johns

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  miss not having to worry much about buying groceries. I did buy some ... the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  may very well be within five years that we start looking to buy a house ... Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... to catch one's breath. One's chest might hurt from not breathing ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that ... label that refers to nine historically African American Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• 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 study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life

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

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

  

  are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... will give you some ideas. This blog I’m going to talk about what I did ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use

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

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  through the whole thing made me think, wow, I need to write about this. I ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020