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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today. I'm certainly not trying to pawn off my indecision entirely on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... going to go to on the plane ride to CPW, then threw it out after my second

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... blog post, but something just wasn't right… So I waited, and on the

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

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  of course, you can also join the people who help choose the members on ... 75% of all undergraduates live on-campus, it’s important that the dorm ... -era policies like [annotation note="students living on campus this year could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... on these small essays. Essentially, you have 5 "mini-essays" - What ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone ... brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross ... every weekend cross stitching or designing cross stitch patterns. I was on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... help improve someone's life. I've always felt that most hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate ... give it to me. If you needed help, if you wanted to work on a great ... reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white ... scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Prize official ceremony was held here in Cambridge - and, on Saturday ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The ... applications and perhaps working on their essays this very moment, and perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission decision from MIT, and I hadn't made it. I am just replying on this old email

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• 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…

  

  was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant ... , nothing helped. I just felt awful -- and I felt sabotaged by my body, which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006