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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for a bunch of makerspace trainings, which are free and available here ... my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get for me? Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Saying "I'm not smart

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... are, cannot match. City living can have its own specific challenges, however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  hangout was my last official commitment for the day, so now I am free! I ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... reality for her at least during her undergraduate career. But, when she ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  . "When she graduated she said she'd gotten [the refrigerator] for free, and I could have it for free, as long as I passed it along for free," said ... a verb, it can mean either thrown away or acquired for free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take a creative writing class before have quickly transformed the twice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  , for free time and a carefree attitude to take me wherever. I’m exhausted ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... , work that had already been pushed back due to the quickly changing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  're interested in printing these, hit me up and we can talk about it. For me, this ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Card and head on over to Symphony Hall for free BSO concerts; find the ... groups; eat nothing but free food for a week and attend cool lectures while ... originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... manipulate images generated by deep learning models, as shown above. For this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... am, at least to myself. I'm always telling myself that I was cheated

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012