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

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to ... classes but I couldn’t bring myself to start it. How the scariest part was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you’d like to cry with me, feel free - I’ll bring tissues. The East Campus ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... that things don't get skewed too much, I should probably also report that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• 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…

  

  you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want ... First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... that I stopped going to 8.022 as well. 6.001 (computer science) lectures

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to ... "heck, did I at least get the units right?" or use brute force to solve

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm ... was alright and jokingly asked me how many fingers he was holding up. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... are still not quite clear to me, I raised my hand almost every time. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• 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…

  

  that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will ... there: sometimes I get too tired to fold my laundry and just fall asleep ... the anger and loneliness and sadness, to get to a place where I could

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

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... said, I am pretty hosed right now and need to get to work on the four ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my ... fit into any social category nor wonder about image. I get keys to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them ... 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

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015