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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  . Stress over whether or not I was doing enough to get into graduate school ... teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... feel like I need to push myself harder and harder to get into a good

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  admissions counselor. How are we supposed to quantify this?  Fryolaters get two ... a kid everyone was trying to get me to work harder. Seems like nowadays we adults are just trying to get you to relax for a second. Sheesh

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... them for long enough, they will implore you to think. After hastily

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to eat shit when it does get served so I can move on and work towards ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... am, I have Astrophysics lecture, so I scurry from the Z-Center to the third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in ... power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  would definitely be super fun to get to help pick the incoming future ... "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  Rye, grabbed dinner, and headed to the bus stop to get back to Boston ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... #springbreak2011 Adventures to keep your taste buds tingling with excitement

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... students to get the best and hardest parts and a lot of unnecessary pressure ... educational experience, to say the least. To avoid getting behind, specifically

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  When I had no motivation to go to Starbucks, I’d get hot chocolate from ... .   Building 12 I would take the elevator across these stairs to get to my UROP ... the walk to Johnson to get tested.     [carousel image1

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... I’ll get too anxious to continue. I have this problem a lot, where the ... time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... to or support is even tougher to get into, because it seems more ... is not to get MORE students to apply to MIT, it's about getting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... premise of the first one was literally just "mom said we have to get rid of ... has been able to get a taste of what the CPW experience is and that they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ability to use thesaurus.com will not get you into any college. I love ... or profound. People are able to get in even with spelling errors in ... college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  , very fortunate that this is even a choice I get to make. Two: At MIT ... before you get to that point. So until then, balance. Madonna ... character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015