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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... am not in sole control of my life. But I have also come to understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  number of people in our office have experimented with standing desks: I ... in discrete chunks of time. I'm not alone: Paul Graham has blogged ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... made of glass this term. I'm leaving MIT! It's totally sad. I just walk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  present-day me. I wrote both parts in strokes of inspiration, something that ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any ... college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of ... . In the span of four months, I had done so many new things and met so ... 14: To be continued... I'll see yall in May/June for the end of this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... ’s digest of why I was interested in their program, asking them if they

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  is sometimes only visible in the limits of your imagination. Can you ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  in the heart of scientific progress and passion and feeling like I ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month. Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... -oh-one-a/b" written in place of numbers. I got a 50% on that one. This past week I had ... and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024