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  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to ... 'm with these groups in the first place. In my second blog post, which I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

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

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  squeezing my stomach in their fist? Why can't I get out of bed in the morning ... 't always be in control, but I can find what I can control and find solace in ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... where you live and hunt you down. Eek. Okay. I flew through the book in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

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

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... , if at all. I was lucky if I knew half the words in the title. Sophomore

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

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

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the

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

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... have much experience with dating altogether, and dating in college can be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... four activities were what I was most involved in, but during my sophomore

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023