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  The end of a chapter

  

  Europe, I was still amazed every time I reached a new destination! For ... and Europe. I even met up with a friend whom I knew from an ... exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... , rather than a near-daily burrito from Anna's Tacqueria, I have a new staple ... the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• 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.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven

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

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... 're definitely not a cult * * * ME: so where are you from FROSH: minnesota ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition. This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  weekend was what I think the blogs created for people much sooner, a ... from San Francisco. Five (or six?) years later, I left Berkeley with a Ph ... blog entry because I have a ton of work to do for my employer (a company

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  !"]cap and gown[/annotation] using money I’d gotten from being a [annotation ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ways of solving problems, for example. I wrote about a concrete research ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... look, here, I have a good explanation for why! So what if I’m less

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  it (I decided this at some point) and just take a break from it all for ... very different from high school. In this regard, I am from a very ... . Otherwise, it can just be a waste of time, for everyone involved. Practicing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun ... for her is probably to go. I remember my parents being frustrated—a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long ... student center, watching the sun sink lower. From where I sat, I could see ... happened at the same time, from shenanigans I can only hint at, to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... signing up for 6.100A, but quickly realized I would be better suited for 6 ... ANOTHER coding exam, so I got a keyboard from the admissions office to use

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember ... my interests, and hobbies, and where I’m from, and what classes I ... when they find out I was a national finalist, I can feel their respect

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma ... be) will be a breeze. I'm grateful to Burton-Conner for providing me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020