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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  in her life (getting a job, graduate school, and marriage) occurred in ... until around the second week of classes, life at MIT was so chill that it ... small smile, "Social life is nothing to snub... I mean with the 20 to 1

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  surreal, liminal experience that the past weeks have been, life began to ... you go All my life has been about Waiting for people to go Your love ... significant, life-changing moments. So I prepared myself for whatever sadness

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  describing a day in the life of a “stereotypical woman” who takes care of her ... basketball and I always win at Mario Party. I like to give encouraging life

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  better. For many, MIT will be the first time in your life when you really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... .[/annotation] It was a rocky time of my life—as perhaps, all freshman falls are—but I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  something very similar already once in my life, around the first time I ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  you could also get a life with a haiku In general i cant say that i ... all my life has gone so well. i have no intention of ever having a heart

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

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  story come to life, and that will be enough. Being indecisive doesn't help

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with people, and those peopled filled with eagerness, then silence, then questions, then hope. The event was…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  with my life. I had always assumed that I would continue exploring my ... telling me what I could or couldn’t do with my life, and that made me really ... looking for them. Life works in crazy ways so, please, don’t panic. ♥

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  only thing I ever really wanted from my life was a family, kids, and ... company) for my entire life. I discovered a fear of getting boxed in, a fear ... for the rest of my life. I discovered a similar fear of becoming average

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , twenty-four years is only a quarter of its life. The history I've uncovered ... graduating from college was a thing that people did, and that life after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  people from a few disparate parts of my life socializing and becoming

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my ... life while in the throes of the illness. He later made a full recovery

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate career. But it doesn’t feel like anything worth celebrating about. I spent the past 4 days studying as…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... life was good, I made many friends. Then in third year things got a bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  prior in my life. This has involved a complete change in habits and ... more stream-of-consciousness posts about MIT life before it's too late

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015