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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... stayed in that mental state for months, or even years. Their warm presence

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , to shifting my computer screen by 1-2 degrees. I keep my camera on in ... ’m simultaneously not bound to other responsibilities, and in a mental state to want ... myself even though I can’t control the state of the world. I read another

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... to be in the same room as the President of the United States. There was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... he'd taken me on a tour of their office while I was in the Bay Area

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  section. I didn't have much hope for my cause, as it was explicitly stated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  stated that they'd be much happier after receiving such a pay increase

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... contest held by the United States Treasury and the grand prize was getting

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 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

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... that feature gay content, like Steven Universe or Yuri on Ice, media that ... liberal state, or even because I was a writing a literature thesis under the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  'd been down this road many times before. Drifting into a state of half ... rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 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

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• 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.

  

  research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... decompositions. The pearl lemma states that we can place the same positive number ... has twelve. Bricard’s condition states that, looking at two three

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out-of-state ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015