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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not, some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... remains to be seen about how our subcommunities will actually function in ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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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  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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  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
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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
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  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
• 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