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

  

  Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... months for me have looked like this: Sad things happen. And they keep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  . Think carefully about what dining arrangement works best for you, and ... , for singles, try MacGregor, and for more roommates, check out Maseeh ... skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.      They come through ... Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... rest, recovery, recharging. Assembling one's forces and laying plans for ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• 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

  

  extracurriculars. He was a varsity cross-country and track runner for his high school ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out. I am very grateful for that call out. He put himself out there and ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... worthiness and your potential or our admiration for your goodness and your ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... training, stamina and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , and seeing girls all around school in my sorority. It was comforting for ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was ... recruitment might not be for them during this process, and that’s totally okay

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . 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. Exit the elevator and grumble when you see the stairwell you always take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... 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

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... sport. But, Liz and Meghan insist, excelling at sports is possible for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  word for that kind of experience, and that lack of concept—that lack of a ... never-ending)[/caption] Ulan. The catch-all word for rain is ulan. And ... , and then it stops for a while, before raining again. When you get caught

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012