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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  client at the end of the day, which was slightly terrifying (since our structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point ... . At the end of the day, we won Honorable Mention! We were all surprised

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... welcoming. At the risk of sounding partial, I will also mention that we had a ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... . Believe it or not, I had to be up at 8:30am ahead of a 9am tour. I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... ’t stop - I spent a long time lying awake at night thinking about many of ... winning author and creative writing professor here at MIT, got accused of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  any sense if I said it to someone at MIT. He also told me the story of ... nonsense? Just as it’s nonsensical to think of someone at MIT losing their horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e ... jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016