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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... in my professional life, I most strongly identify with Type 8. I got ... ’s stupid”  “I promise I’m more agreeable in real life”   Jack

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  2011.   And change his life did. After five years of hacking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... ’t recognize. You sigh and pull around to another lot. Residential Life starts ... agreeing to be dined on. Residential Life doesn’t specify what will be doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  real life; I spent most of my time online, where I could pretend ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you’ll find this post lurking near the top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I’ll reproduce the post here: I’m a senior…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  life out here has comprised of coexisting as teacher and student. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 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.

  

  's from then on." Well, correct me if I'm wrong but life doesn't usually ... major. I don't believe in the policy that you have to suffer in life

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... must be no problems at all with my life. look, i even have time for recreation! look at this beautiful work-life balance i have: i finished the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my ... , where it is self-evidently life-altering even as we contemplate it. In ... should or will) do for the rest of my life. I told him it felt like I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of Mass Ave, you'll see a larger focus on student life and activities ... system special/valuable? and How has your residence affected your life?, as ... health. People wrote about how they learned life skills beyond the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... your life, it really will. CPW is the greatest moment in the annual

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... , academic advisors, or S3. Student life would be fundamentally different ... .5 hours free to manage the rest of my life, studies and all.  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  once. If my life before MIT had been walking down a smooth, pleasant ... having failed at every prior attempt at learning to code in my life, no ... had ever run in my life was five begrudging miles at a road race

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

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  patterns from the pattern language of my life by Natasha B. '16 Repilot by ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  [/annotation]. And that’s life so far in Austin! It’s full of parks, rivers, new ... real-life. My time at M3 Design has nurtured that little kernel in my ... .678[/annotation], I can figure that out. With the real-life experience of M3 Design

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  mail! or Everybody loved her and she led a saintly perfect life and she ... ! It's because I suck as a human being and am destined for the trash life ... might make my words seem empty. Obviously my life is set up to be perfect

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised,…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015