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

  

  .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a ... this in mind, let's dive into my definitely not comprehensive list of ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and ... into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  by dropping sticky notes into a small box outside of my room, and that ... about how it’d go; despite all of the work we put into testing (probably ... different players across all of campus. This competition had various “game

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and clocked into the material that they flew through it and I sort of ... quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  fell to the left, slamming my thigh into the the sharp corner of the desk ... it into a cart, push it the 1.1 miles to tEp, and then get it out of ... the stairs to the fifth floor, go into the study room, climb out of a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  react to rejection is one of the most important life skills you can learn ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  and transform it into a set of actions to take? Act IV: So, Which ... 've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  it’s the most important one of my whole paragraph. Well, I’ll define it ... some of my gay content into the interwebs! I’m excited for the day (and ... most of the thoughts that got funneled into my blogs and vlogs were

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

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  into a college because then you've got the wrong idea.   Table of ... Spans: September of your senior year into early January Description: $35 ... .org/ron-brown-scholarship/ Application Usually Spans: September of your senior year into early December

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  . The precise form of the mathematics curriculum is not important as long ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .  Four years of all that stress, and I emerge into the real world to find ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  spirit of depression to gain a foothold into their life. I had lots and ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  decided to split it up into two trips. I split one of the remaining bag into ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  --Father Kifle. Abba Kifle gave us much more insight into what the community of ... into the back of the pickup truck as he continued pressing on the bumpy ... write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to ... focused, you get into the habit of being efficient Scheduling: 1) Have some ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Throw the rest of your stuff into storage. Say bye to everyone and hope ... design and engineer the semester into whatever I wanted out of it.   ... any of it, not at all. I barely even thought of MIT. More importantly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  things that are important to me and representative of my experiences. This ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012