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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... to have applied in the first place. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... manipulate the process in order to gain admission. In case this distinction is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• 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.

  

  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 to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online ... me to attend lecture in person, so I didn't. I watched the lectures ... these lectures in lieu of this, try skipping this PSET in order to study

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... 't always have every ingredient they list in their recipe. Or even half of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... to my freshman advisor (or maybe my parents, I don’t recall; I still ... , working alone or in tandem, that happened my freshman fall might have

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  field to another. People who are working in big companies or startups, or ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... people. My quest to trace the past residents of my room began in early

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  to McCormick in 1999. Each floor has three or four rooms—mostly double ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... identify as LBGTQ+. Some may not be out to friends or family, some may have ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... magnetic strip swipes and pin pad punches led to this array of stuff. Or ... the in-ear ones, and I usually grab them when I’m going to be sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... friends who weren't afraid to spout Maxwell's equations in regular

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012