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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line ... ’s nice to have. In any case, it takes half an hour to get from Riverside to ... ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... three lessons in my experience, equally applicable both to swimming and to life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... interesting class in that my coteacher, Carl S. ’23, didn’t know how to speak

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... hole in the space-time continuum just to see how you fared this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms. Despite that, I’d recommend anyone interested in the liberal arts to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015