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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell the story, I need you to go watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• 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 / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018