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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential ... idea Sabrina blogged about in the past too.  I've lifted 3-4 days a week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential ... channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)   ... ’s History Description: Thee, and I mean thee, YouTube channel to help you in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... entire life". It's been hugely instrumental in making me feel like I'm not ... ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... everything that would distract me. We had made a bet - if I didn’t get in, she ... 't get in. I figured that if the tube didn't come by Christmas, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... I would have fun or fit in or fail miserably. I would learn that I ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  considering. In addition, she didn’t think D9 organizations would be available ... Side of Fraternities because I would not have described it any better ... sororities weren’t engaging with her in the way she would have wanted to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... hours a week. I spent a lot of time in prayer, in meditation, in worship

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... schedule that other students would kill for. I took 48 credits, which, while

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010