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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... few tears. He gave me a hug and a frame of reference with which to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... with members of Delta Sigma Theta. While Nikayah would go on to later ... to either visit her and invite her to different cities on the coast or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... like to know what's going on, and all of these unknowns pushed my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venice, on my birthday, which happened to fall on Carnivale. Venice is ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... ." You feel like you are burnt out or that you are on the verge of burning out, but in reality you are on the verge of deciding whether or not you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  question of whether Christianity is delusional or dangerous. It’s led to some ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... ="102008" /] We do lots of events across Boston is what I’m trying to say. Some

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  if you somehow manage to miss out on all of those opportunities, you ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community ... put a ton of stress on its internal structure, and cause it to break or ... switch to working on one of my final projects. This is for one of my course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  , and my three advisees on Saturday to check in with all of them and ... working on, like the results of the MIT 2023 Talent Show: [embed ... other had to write down the code in pseudocode or a language of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  of your four years Keri on how having too many extracurriculars is ... explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... are gay the gay heart is made of many fruit seeds i will have to admit ... to-do's after tomorrow i'm running out of time, all my work is behind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of day-to-day kindness and stimulating conversations (or any ... here or there, some of it was scripted and some of it was just saying ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... use, asking myself: is this grey better at 50% or 25%? Do I move this

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  chunk of which was liquid nitrogen ice-cream. I jumped on a large bouncy ... Have I Ever, in which I discovered I was missing out on a lot of life ... of the decay than to face them head-on, and I spent every waking moment

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017