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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life ... the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I ... I didn't care. In fact, I started asking myself questions that I had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ? Don’t stay in a relationship that is giving you more stress than comfort ... ladder. Maybe I’ll do a master’s on the side to check my pulse? In my free ... in November, with some awesome roommates (one of them is a baker! I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... England Aquarium last spring. What's really great is that even though I have

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  chance of swaying a decision unfairly. With that in mind, let me tell you ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... teacher, a humanities teacher, a counselor. I read the things that they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  best things that ever happened to me. I realized that a person is NOT ... (in other news, i just realized that i have no idea what is good form ... is that we don't really know what we're doing, and maintaining a too

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... the life around them while they could. Now that I’m a senior, living in ... if none of that works out, I know there is more than one path in life

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the ... students in any way possible. I spent a majority of the past week with these ... )                                        (Updates on Facebook)  (Is that a purell stand? On top of Kresge? PC: Samir

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  sentimental of a person and do that crap everytime I go home, and because I was ... . Sigh. I've never been a napper. I was that weird kid in preschool who ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... . (Professor Rabbat, I enjoyed the class, but four essays plus a final is too ... that long. Then on Monday and Tuesday, I will pretend I was busy doing

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

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... my "a day in the life". It's something I chose to do because I want to ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... you're allan k right ME: that is me FROSH: wow ME: wow FROSH: i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... permits, which is something that I enjoy greatly (as I make it not only a ... the fact that I was a) late and b) now and forevermore a TA

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  guy someone is dating, how much work someone has. I think that's what I ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  medical school in the world knows that MIT is a tough place, and that ... Rice (disclaimer: I *do* think the Rice-Baylor program is still awesome ... is most worried about: will I be able to maintain a high GPA at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... 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 / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in ... elusive. I work in a lab in the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the ... I want to do that. It’s also a time to finish up projects, work out

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012