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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . I never really knew how blogging would affect my experience at MIT and ... December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was ... I would have fun or fit in or fail miserably. I would learn that I

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... how it fits into the experiments you did in class. DO NOT LET THIS

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any ... the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  ": things I want to hold on to and feel interested in, but would not ... order to make sure I would commit to the humanities in some way. > 2A ... fucking clue. I think I really didn't like how much physics was in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  graduated I really thought nothing would change and we’d always be in touch ... time to check in with myself and do a vibe check on how I’m doing. This ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September ... 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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... to know that I would see them again in the fall. I felt happy that ... : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how much I would've liked this, I would've joined earlier, or, if I knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... , 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... , crayon pictures of whatever scene i was imagining in my mind. i would “sell

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . PhD in hand, I thought I would drop in (hello!) and share some thoughts ... terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021