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• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... 't. One that struck me a lot wasn't even something new, but something that ... note="for those like me, who are not marathon runners, or runners at all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is ... minutes, and I feel bad. Everyone gave me feedback on my piece, but I had to

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  GroupMe, could not find out when or how we would be given this opportunity ... . One thing that struck me about high school, as I finished it off, was ... : me being excited to learn stuff will be a recurring theme in this post

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  things that you need to know about me before I continue. I lost my birth ... me what I might be doing wrong or how to improve my ideas, and I would ... being one of the best things that could have happened to me. I ended up

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... me; it was so lovely. I wrote a blog post titled “Meltdown” saying I ... people emailed me, especially alums, especially people I’d looked up to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  and emailed me asking me to audition. As a shy freshman, even the thought of talking about vaginas in front of an audience made me blush; I ... of the cast were already empowering me: if I didn’t have their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  there ahead of me. Then, I wanted to climb up into the ventilator, but "Eric, junior, physics" got there ahead of me. I settled with pushing ... class, but she got ahead of me. "It's the demyelination of the neurons

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  will probably turn me into bacon. (Speaking of which, do you know what ... bacon they sometimes look at me like I just said something nasty about ... , before the bacon police come after me or (as previously warned) Chris and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  hard drive. Psshh and HP told me I’d have to spend $40 on recovery disks ... ’s not a particularly good study habit, but it worked for me in high school ... cared much about grades, I was just me and that was that. Now I know some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to ... Amsterdam. For me, this was my first time in Europe, and I was eager to see ... it wasn't a complete 100% vacation =p). For me, I haven't done Spanish

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  . (This could explain why the girl studying in the cubicle next to me looks like she's making a beanie out of uncombed hair.) For me this includes a ... . "Low Balance," the cash register informs me. I glance at the angry green

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  helped me acquire my ninja-like time management skills. When you know you ... me at one point that he'd picked my resume from the pile of applicants ... to me. I loved my NIH job, and I happily worked overtime with no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  writing a letter of rec for me for a political science summer camp, he kept asking me questions about specific things I had done in his class. The ... and gave it to a friend to proofread, and he told me it was horrible. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied ... quest. To me, this card pinpoints that familiar rut many of us tend to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me, the glistening sun rays dance on the water and, behind me, a night ... friend right now? Where would I want them to take me? What would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  [/caption] April 13 is special for me because it's Homestuck Day, and Homestuck is ... shirt. If you see me, say hi, because I would like to talk about Homestuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what it was I wanted out of college, taught me to be able to see myself ... allowed me to more fully understand myself, outside of the image I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  gave me a whole bag of extra stuffing left over from one of their projects. They also sent me info about a queer fiber arts circle happening ... twenties is hard, and I'm hoping fiber arts can help me meet new people," one

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... 's still a very small part of me that lives in contest-math-world and feels

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  over Y will make the people advocating for Y sad or disappointed in me ... don't matter. this one always trips me up, because i don't realize it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022