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  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... fall asleep ...and that's basically my life, 5-6 days a week, for much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... dozen numbers from somebody else’s life, consider this: I posted 4 (four ... numbers and acronyms so that it can dismiss your entire life with an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. — August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by the indignant…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  from the beginning with new things and life-changing moments, and that it ... with the rest of my life should almost always have been the priority. I ... for one of my most life-changing, defining experiences. I'm glad that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  old adage goes good grades, social life, sleep -- pick two, but I wanted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I’ve been on an extended vacation…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT’s oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We’re the live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I’ve roleplayed as a ghost who didn’t know he…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to ... them. To those of you who are applying to MIT and imagining your life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  tattoos now are my connection to my best friend Connie who lost her life

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  -maze of life. As the wise Dory once said, just keep swimming!  We believe

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  accomplish in life possibly-maybe-who knows). I want to make cool things and do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... about your life. If you feel like there is a small possibility that you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  In 1870, MIT admitted its first woman: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards.⁠01 This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women, hence why…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a freshman. Covid pods⁠05 you got up to…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education-related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... ’ve crossed this bridge less than five times in my life (excluding the one or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... affected my life that month. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't have felt the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• 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

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015