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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm is pretty uniform in culture (e.g. Maseeh). Explore as much as ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... leader, of— Focus. This time, let's tell a smaller story. It is the end ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly more ... . Presented with a hypothetical situation in which 18-year-old Elizabeth and 22 ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  a measure of how depressed someone is. Thinking about things ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that ... investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... is unfortunate. I probably could have got a lot more out of an in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  intrigues me the most is called Pick Your Poison. In it, the Mafia is given a ... haunting me in a much more real way than that, and it was in thinking that I ... ? And if I had picked a different college, how much would my life have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... try to do it with friends—food in college is a social experience. In ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... how it tastes because eating playdough is a little icky. I really like ... numb. A panic attack occurs when the anxiety gets too much, and can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door, making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... ). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of mine who lives in Boston is a social worker, and my parents got in ... whole is now engaged in a dialogue about mental health and wellness more ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019