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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it from. Here are some sunsets from our living room.     And here are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy groceries, mealplan, and cook. Sometimes one just gets $8 Chipotle or Anna

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated

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

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

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped (alarming the desk worker) and dropped the envelope. I knew this book. I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once ... -haired, fluorine-hating organic chemistry lecturer with impeccable handwriting and ... history of the world among students of all majors and genders, Professor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday ... chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... rejection letters so that I would be able to recognize mine immediately and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good, and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , right? Rumors and ‘leaks’ had been circulating all morning. We knew that ... sitting to my left, GRAs and some close friends scattered around. And so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  . False. I found my limits - pushed them, broke them, flailed about, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011