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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  feel just peachy about my life choices. Several months later, I ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper’s office in the Student Center.…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here’s the story. Well, actually, here’s the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic…

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008