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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying ... careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  emanates from the firing of neurons in our brains, and the latter is an idea ... consciousness is composed of elementary particles - both the characters in His ... implying here that the Church is an enemy to human progress and tries to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the ... in the roughly 3 minute music video. I tallied the dancers and tried to ... would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... picture): The most recommended place to cry on campus was the Cheney Room ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... that is true, the problem you're dealing with is so much bigger than that ... your SAT scores (fun fact: the variable that correlates most strongly to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... yourself on occasion to contemplate the truly nutso fact that time is passing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the ... seen, really seen. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be seen, in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , from random tech purchases to the ping-pong table in the lab commons to the 8K (7680×4320!!!) display in the corner to the quality of the food

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  [annotation note="and most things in life"][/annotation], down to the point ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... because i was still stuck in the mindset of always defaulting to the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... changed and split apart. College applications are tiny in comparison to the ... to MIT. I sent them a letter telling them about what I had done in the

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... . And no, that wasn't a typo in the heading. On most of the main buildings ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  solvers in Boston were excited to start solving, so most of the people who ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... .009 classrooms in the fall to help teach the class that set me on this path. I ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , someone else in the house is, too. It’s also way more fun to do work around ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT ... participated in Fully Structured Recruitment (FSR), which is the main recruiting

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... Red vs. Blue Oh. My. God. The internet is coming! To Boston! Like, like ... like ROFLCON is amazing. I walked up to the registration desk, edging

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008