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

  

  effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just

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

  demons on depression

  

  visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... 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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• 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 ... place devoid of good things, but now I feel like there's too much stuff in the future, all of which can hurt me. In this distorted vision, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high ... ! Midnight IHOP runs? I’ve never tried! In the rush of finding friend groups

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  applicants). I am attending Mount Sinai School of Medicine. IV. In April, I ... that you can work with, and recently I just realized that EVERY ONE of ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science ... time, was somewhat of a mythical place. I was only in 8th grade, and ... option back in 2014. But also, I know I didn’t have a good sense of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... photo I took of the Charles River from campus in late November of my ... channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• 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 ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i ... of you in meet the bloggers! Robo-CJ writes haiku On HaikuBot i am in ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

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

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to ... of motion that involved putting one foot in front of the other (I

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be truly unlimited in your pursuit of knowledge, and nowhere else can you

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

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

  

  draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... relationship. Both in writing and in person, I'm still kind of awkward about it ... made some effort has been successful in securing a relationship. I am of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... in the future I'm in the process of writing a few more papers right now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  third year since I graduated from MIT, in June of 2013. It is also the ... and loss of energy. (Wikipedia) It was October, and I had turned in my ... felt I had sort of mailed in. But I had never, or almost never, earned a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011