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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  's coronavirus response, we had to cancel both programs. And this made me pretty ... involves. I don't know what, exactly, led me to nominating myself for ... Summer HSSP didn't happen, in over sixty years. And part of me felt really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... important decisions to make than me: “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue ... . For me, a reset usual means yoga, food prep, laundry, ironing, and maybe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... was cold but the conversations kept me warm, and being there was the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel ... . And someone told me that it helps to scratch off the tattoos, which ... skin. It made me happy to hear that my temporary tattoo idea was helpful

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• 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

  

  that) So if you’re like me, maybe you wonder what combination of ... unwieldly. Microphone - This clips onto (1) and makes me look like a tech ... ’s not for me. Also my bike key, Hubway key, and apartment key

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours ... interesting than they were in high school. I was younger than everyone around me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... confuses me because I'm actually Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). After ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 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.

  

  took me all day. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it. Organic ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... 'd give me a day instead of the allotted hour. Even still, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... artistic, so having painted a mural is a very big deal for me. :) James H ... crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much ... thing that was so unsettling for me wasn't the stuff about sharing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  hope that MIT would provide me with an extraordinary experience en route ... , who was rejected, tells me that he was hurt and disappointed not because ... me. But I will venture to challenge every one of you - those who are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... of all things outdoors and frequent airline travel vouchers has led me ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... person and nobody would have ever entrusted me with anything more dangerous ... it does. For some people, this is old hat. For me, it's really

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... psychiatrist found me a practice covered by my insurance, and i went through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I ... something to me, that I still feel this way even though next year I ... about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  , but part of me feels like it’s a cop-out, as I’ve already taken a ... things that researchers studied before me. From another angle, I also ... appreciate how powerful this was, that nothing could scare me away from trying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  things that made me happy. (Interestingly, many of my friends from MIT felt the same way about post-graduation life.) What was stopping me? On some ... you to make time to do the things you want to do. My work often has me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016