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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... me 6 whole minutes of sleep passed out on the floor in my clothes. In a fetal position. So for me, dreaming is just about the most awesome thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me ... the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact ... help me out if it's a rough week and sleep is not up there on the ... seriously. Freshman year would have been a lot more difficult for me if I hadn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  course). I read them both, which made me feel accomplished. =) My spring ... . Basically, youth group was really important to me for a long time, and I ... down to stay with me for the rest of the week. We're going to spend lots

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  "tecker." Don't sue me please? =) Shannon: hahahahahaha I loved the ... think you're cool! hehe Jessica, let me tell you something about bloggers ... comfortable that i would be rejected no stress now aon me. but anyway if the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... everyone, I mean me. Freshman fall was great, because [annotation note ... ’t hard 😭. I think the biggest challenge so far for me has been that PSet

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... glance. Then... my friend messaged me with some other interesting classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... had to stay, when really nobody but me cared. Next was the interview ... wanted to sit there. [annotation note = "The interviewer literally told me

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  have been old enough that the doctors stopped calling me brave. In ... and see my friend. The time crunch told me I couldn’t do anything that ... ’t affect me. I know that they’ll heal. When pain is temporary, it is only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  maybe people can give me their insight and help me with my choice ... myself further on Deafness and Deaf culture. Pros: Forces me to continue ... . Everyone absolutely raves to me about this class telling me how great it is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  idyllic view of MIT, and I carried this with me for the most part, which ... and resulted in me mainly looking at the positive elements without any ... it was for me, so remember there's nothing wrong with taking a break to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... many of us are experiencing, the pandemic and quarantine has made me ... recognition in this blog post. I've found that it's really hard for me to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  made me cry multiple times. Here's a graph I made after I finished, with ... switching in. Danny now has to struggle through 18.01A without me, but I'm rooting for him! He sent me a video of him sadly crossing my name off of his

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through ... probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... “theory” behind MBTI. Fellow blogger Erick P. ‘17 kindly sent me this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... -hour red blocks, many of which overlap. He talks me through how this week he ... Wellesley with his friends there, tells me about his girlfriend, and we both

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  someone like me who is new to this business. When I think about it though ... I do think of that class often. So, let me tell you -- it also ... about me politically? *sarcasm* (FYI - there is no question related to

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  calculus as a prerequisite for acceptance? This isn't possible for me, as my ... love to take them, but it's just not an option for me and I feel as ... the classes MIT wants me to. I take the most difficult classes it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I ... , check Friday Liveblog), I knew that MIT was the place for me. Now to ... arcade project that my friends and I worked on in January. He gave me some

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because ... . Voluntarily. Adam and me with the Mayflower reproduction ship in the ... . This made sense to me, and I kind of took it for granted until I heard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  drove me to Washington, DC, where I moved into one of the dorms at George ... she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she ... parents drove me back to school so I could help out with dorm rush (my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006