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

  

  ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... how to spend my days in social isolation [annotation note="something i ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to anyone interested in God and staying connected to Christian ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... of the best things I’ve participated in since coming to MIT.   

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  figured out how to successfully achieve multiple "food systems" goals ... can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  always believe in you…and take a minute to think about how much effort and ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... that somewhere in me is the power to analyze these bridges and tell you ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . MIT honestly paid my friend to go spend a month in Mongolia learning how ... . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every ... hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... time to get work done and oftentimes I found myself just wandering around ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then ... MIT students - but we all go to MIT. Being in touch with friends with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009