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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have ... guess there isn't a limit? haha) 81. Take the silver line to the airport

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  grew up in the town next to the other, they're in the same lab group and ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... a person—and to find out that they are depressed—when I have been

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... . Uncertainty: The decisions that we are making are about the future, and there is ... have to choose one or the other, and that is … hard. (This is the message

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to ... careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... speed. It’s possible that my anxiety is the product of being at a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  some design inspiration from that. Since I didn’t want Harvard to be the ... , Winnie suggested we turn the drawing into a light up acrylic sign. And ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a ... sensors. Purple is the only morning lab section, and we joke that we're ... is causing the microcontroller to intermittently shut itself off and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  classes to force some motivation and structure into the blur that is living ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... eats cat food, Cat 1 (there is also a cat involved and currently he hates

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... audience in the dark, hiding the labor and work that goes into it to create a ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the ... online video. Elizabeth and I share a lot of the same values when it comes to educational video production, and she structured the course so that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others—and ... childhood. While I still jam out to the top songs of the 1990s and 2000s on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  adjustments to the system so that a user can input their timezone and not have ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... to learn. Lab 1 The next day, I had my 2 and a half hour lab session in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . Pandan is a tropical plant that is used to give foods a sweet aroma and ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on-the ... attached to the ceiling and at the bottom attached to a mattress-sized piece

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  realize that it counts the same as an F, and your GPA is tanked yet again ... important part is the fact that it’s a break, though. Sure, it’s visibly there ... lingering stress with it. And that’s the whole process! I managed to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , because sometimes it’s the fire that inspires us to keep going, and anger is ... imposters. The plus side is that after you break through, you usually have a stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  Muti and other rural areas, there is a disconnect between the resource ... , there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river ... the water vessel (think rope-and-bucket that you pull to retrieve water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... to hang out with. And that there many people I'd like to see but won ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... conversation and then go back to talking about Jersey Shore in the same minute. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... thought that the College Board's guide to writing a good essay is really ... individual paragraph, and close with a conclusion that restates the thesis

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008