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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  't pinpoint it, but it's related to relationships, and how I interact with ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have ... own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  notably in learning how to think about problems from my peers, approaching ... with some talented friends I’ve met here at MIT. It’s a testament to how ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... just a day away. I’ve never taken the time to count up how many emails I ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem ... ‘how lucky that I shall never have to do that.’  # My worry is that if I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind ... would be like, how to solve hard problems, and how to care for myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and ... to a quad. I was worried about how I'd handle the decreased privacy ... livecoding shaders. We all learned how to use GLSL (the OpenGL Shading Language

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... "teaches" you how to study, because techniques and tricks vary by person ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... hole in the space-time continuum just to see how you fared this ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... want to point out how closely test scores are associated with ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014