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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  floor of Stud, starting at 12 noon and ending around 1am. We did a lot of ... than usual lol, because I could not function at this level of ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

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

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... of MIT, I've made friends that are more like family at this point, gone ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research ... , however, the balls began to fall and the masks began to crack. At the end of ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  wake up at the crack of dawn. Groups leave together on Sunday mornings ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was ... the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... completed with excellence. At the core of what makes MIT challenging is ... of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... , and marvel at your very adult portion of vegetables. [carousel image1 ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... at midnight. Oops.) At the end of class, we get our midterms back, and ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at me, my name sat proudly in bold at the front of a line of far more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... beautiful at night, incredible view huge desks lots of outlets a nice ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

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

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... part 2: yarn art hi-res rendering of the board or if you're ever at MIT ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the ... (just ask the senior staff) but at the end of the day, a committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006