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• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... perfectionism and procrastination are two sides of the same coin. Perfectionists

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore ... was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... ’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... ? Well, the answer is that taking vacation in the peak of application ... along the edge of the pink sand - the concerns of the world blowing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four" with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching ... day of classes, after finding out the ISBNs for my classes, I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of ... page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... describe my life through the coordinates of semesters. I don't know if I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of you who have completed all or some or none of what you planned for the ... It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... us. If they need another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  some cpw events i’ll be at

  

  some of the events I'm planning to be at. If you're having trouble ... . Hispanifac: FAC is "Friday Afternoon Club". The latinxes of EC will be ... of cool orchestral scores (arrangements written by members of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... long looking for the light at the end of the tunnel   water you

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of ... always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger ... math problems, but none of these are actually indicative of the kind of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... subset of my actual experience. I had pictured all the moments of triumph over hard things and meeting some of the world’s most interesting people

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... be warned; there are many stories and not all of the stories are about ... before, but this is a writing classic. It's 99 retellings of the same story

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the ... .0002[/annotation] pset and turned it in without passing all of the tests. The thing is, I really liked the content of the class, but [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... ’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew ... professor, the one who has seen the promise and struggles of your project

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  looking through pictures of the past year, from fancy formal pictures to pictures of derping around with friends. I re-listened to the songs we PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014