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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick-up ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do

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

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  more vulnerable than usual, and everyone picks up on it, because a breach ... for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come ... .  Of course, I was the one to uproot. I broke up with my girlfriend, who

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... first, I did—I finished assignments over Spring Break and caught up on ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  topic was Dijkstra’s algorithm for finding shortest paths, my second topic was (the inifinite-ish quantity of) proofs for the infinity of primes ... objectively horribly. The third one went much better: I showed up early and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  surreal). During COVID, while waiting for the New Zealand borders to open up ... . Luana: I recently wrapped up my third semester at MIT. Opting for more ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. So as you

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... not think that I was a good enough candidate for MIT - my SAT scores didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air ... , something reddish that involved guava—when a recruiter sidled up. Her greeting

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a ... -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... broke up every week or so for the next several months. M.P. ‘19 I was ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  some skills I picked up working for Company X. More broadly, I’ve really ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021