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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... ’d go through it and try to remember the people who did the things with me ... isn’t nearly as big as it seems the first time you come through. Try

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  effort they put into the class really made me feel valued and supported ... leverage your teammate's strengths. This was the class that reminded me why I ... ! World! Impact! 2.00C gave me opportunities I never would have dreamed of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  degrees out. I didn’t have my good jacket with me, because it was in a box ... bear with me, please, it was a high-speed trolley. Alan: Along the track near the cemetery, there’s also a “Your Speed” sign, like the kind

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  Zuko and the two scenes that shocked me (Zuko’s betrayal and Aang’s near ... episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how ... 't dubbed at all, and I think this had me watching shows that I definitely

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... with me to go across the street. I hear only ResLife’s laughter. I give ... kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... learning what that means to me, but I never forgot this passage that on ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... 't interest me. Like, consider this admissions page, or this Wikipedia article ... fascinates me is, say, what MacGregor was like fifty years ago, or the history

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  Arab. Nearly all the restaurants on the street are Arab, and many shops

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... do nothing, but sit above me acting blind to the tears that wish I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As early as freshman orientation, the difference between me and my peers who

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... , enumerable, diagnosable reasons depression took me, the high school overachiever, the theater geek, that exuberant, enthusiastic girl, and turned me

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after ... that’s what bothers me. It bothers me because it makes my problems feel less real in comparison. It bothers me because it makes my identity feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... three years later. Nothing before or since has come close to terrifying me ... 938,324,129 That Creepy Guy staring at me from across the airport

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on their homepage. I remember receiving the email from Dean Crayton asking me ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... English class. A friend told me how he grew up wondering why "red" and ... be "visualization" to you might not be what "visualization" is to me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  laboratory. These happy thoughts kept me company as I stuffed my things into ... time, I did. It kept me rooted still, fixed to the floor, listening to my ... around. Yup. Somehow, sitting obnoxiously away from me, on the other side

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013