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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... life's purpose. Here's an excerpt from my journal on that night: "And

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?)…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  thought about Greek Life, nearly every pledge I've met this year has said ... 're curious about Greek life, it's the best time to check out the different ... life guidance to name a few. 10. Don't plan out your whole CPW, go where

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... 's quite an active social life on the weekends. There are about a zillion ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... cook together and go to Target (married life! it is exciting!). We also ... college admissions and life at my internet home, which, contrary to popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... follow: indeed, there will be times when life is particularly rough, and it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  most difficult thing i've ever written in my life. it's about suicide and ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... something bewildering and not knowing what your life means in the absence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  who dreams with me of a blissful life on a boat in neutral waters where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the following lessons about life: Focus on the shot you’re lining up ... don't quite hit the target. There are doh! shots in life. The trick is ... Treasures @ MIT: Pistol by Natnael G. '15 Life Lessons From Pistol Class by

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

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... biggest, most consequential life decisions—your priorities, your career path ... very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  commitment? – I thought I’d explain what Greek life at MIT is like, especially ... organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is ... been involved in Greek life since my very first year at MIT. My freshman

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  we mean. Two pivotal experiences in my parents' married life ... leader, and the church was our life. My family twelve to fifteen hours in ... , as the voice of God steered the direction of my family's life. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  lot of pressures--MIT things, non-MIT things, college things, home-life ... America. Discriminatory incidents happen frequently in my life--even here in ... stride, live my life, remember that those people don’t matter. But combined

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 're using your brain and talking about life. [caption id="attachment_99792

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... get on with my life and focus on staying healthy, but i've definitely ... you spent the past few years of your life is "good enough" or whether

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington ... am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative, abiding factor in your life will be you. Your own abilities, your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• 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: Samuel Maurer’s Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was written I moved into…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017