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

  

  anxious. 3. A Happiness Budget Budget some money for happiness. Yes, we are ... two scrapbooks, one for my friend and one for me, and a bunch of ... playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when

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

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... personalities. How to customize my practice for each trainee requires a lot of ... for my faculty job, I believed I had a really great research project in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  ways of solving problems, for example. I wrote about a concrete research ... into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... . The tattered bill requested 13,800 dollars for a three-day hospital stay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is ... it makes for a particularly good case study. We also discuss China ... for robotics, and then I picked 2A-Robotics (lol). Sophomore year I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the ... . Freshman year, I could hang onto a talk for an average of probably 5 minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  MIT as a staff member for a few years, knew my way around the Institute ... in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... of challenge. For a while, I flailed. I would come to class or to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time ... sent it to my parents as a passive cry for help. My dad realized pretty

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys ... for her perspective. Nikayah learned that MIT used to have a history of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... wandered around downtown LA for a while looking for food (a very common theme

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... wasn’t very reasonable with him at first and refused for a while. But ... drop into a room in building 6 during certain times for a small, informal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... apply for a UROP that inspires "second conversation thinking" over one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if ... Israel forever. It's really neat now to have a mental image for many of the ... MISTI MIT-Israel students came together for a 5 day seminar learning about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... one heard or saw me get injured. I laid on the floor for a minute ... roommates, Dayna, wanted to put on a tea party for the house. I wasn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... . That made for a tough first couple of years. Coming out of it, though ... -- i.e., when to leave something behind. He thought for a minute then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020