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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others. However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• 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 ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... was alright and jokingly asked me how many fingers he was holding up. I panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I ... conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  actions were a reasonable response to the situation I was in. Can I claim to ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... third year since I graduated from MIT, in June of 2013. It is also the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016