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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  time (you'd be surprised at how much mathematics was involved). Then, of ... flying a drone is looking at footage taken from the drone afterwards, and ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  be challenged by, and how much; like whether you are ready for a period ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... ! This class isn't for "dumb" students at all, it is quite literally a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  homework and realizing how much better I’ve become at patiently disentangling a challenge. MIT is paradise. I cry sometimes. I love it here. My only ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  want to spent my time, how much water I consume. This is but the start of ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  stumbled out of this place having found just that. (The following is a non ... she wasn't able to graduate, she most definitely is a part of mine. tl ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Nigerian university is different and purely quantitative, depending on a ... to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... ’s alright to be invested. If this is about where you will spend a good chunk

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  galaxy brain move is asking WHY after a YES."]a lot of NOs are not followed ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... challenges. None of that is achievable by simply following a path that has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how ... this was a mistake. it feels as if my work is tearing my body apart, as ... about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  to Prudential and complain about how expensive everything is. We could ... about how expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two ... about how tired I'm feeling, and for a moment, it'd feel like I could live

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , I guess?). My story is still very much unfolding, but MIT was a part ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A ... ’s anything you take away from this story, it’s that shame is really not a fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018