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  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  we mean. Two pivotal experiences in my parents' married life happened shortly after I was born. My parents had plans to move to Boston and work here. My mother was a bank teller, at the time, although she

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• 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"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... lounge while I write this 20* *Please. I could totally take him. My band teacher, Mr. L, assigned me my first solo in sixth grade. Just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  my homework never! stay up forever! walk around in my bathrobe all day ... a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... : stirred things) midnight meals with my boyfriend for his fraternity  

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  Center holding my name badge and a newly earned certificate and dragged my ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  "]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... OME. The advisor I talk about here, Somiya, was my secondary advisor my ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  talking to people, I stopped cleaning my room, and I got very lonely. It culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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…

  

  when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... shock. I told my parents that I wanted to open my decision alone so we ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... block, and past Central Square. I thought about my 6.004 circuit error. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... , of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... 'm sitting in my dorm room looking out at the beautiful Boston skyline, taking

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... . My freshman year, we got as far as the Elite Eight, but this year we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018