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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how ... struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  didn’t have the words to express how I felt, but looking back at that ... get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... feeling to have. I had no idea how much room my shame was taking up until I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  't pinpoint it, but it's related to relationships, and how I interact with ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... day and we mused about how we'll never get a normal moveout. Last year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at ... ! Luckily for me, my part of the presentation was first, so I got to get the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of ... -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I ... to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  REXtcomm. I get to meet a good set of frosh, and they are quite cool, but I keep ... life. I meet a lot of frosh I haven't met before, and we get to present ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... are brutal). I dressed nicely and headed to lab to get some work done

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... . I've thought about the experience of going to that show (with the guy ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... ."]where you want to live.[/annotation] This year, I'm serving as one of the two ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... class. Seriously, I'm talking to you, overzealous frosh."]18

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009