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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  by people loosely affiliated with the hall I lived on freshman year ... It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... Dr. Richard Hanau '39, our second-oldest living East Campus alumnus

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  clouds above their heads. The thought of living life without having rain ... sense of mysticism. Sudden rains on a sunny day happen when may kasal ng ... . Getting rained on, naulanan, causes sickness, often colds. Lots of songs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... resonant replies not just on Reddit (over 2,000 upvotes) but rivals almost any entry ever posted on these blogs.  I know I'm retired but Inri137's

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... on to who I thought I was. I remember letting go. I remember accepting ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... ,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one ... on [annotation note="a floor at my dorm East Campus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  don’t like that they admit students based on factors other than merit ... and steady, because my job is to be pleasant and polite and help people ... before, not on this level. It’s not uncommon feel like you were admitted by

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my living group, going on road ... Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... - American (Junior) High School Math Exam), did okay on it, and never went any

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... the strange buttons and knobs and labels. My aunt helped me figure out ... anyway, until my very first night on the MIT campus. But I’d been up all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  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 ... Canyon Road on Christmas Eve, with the farolitos and the music and everyone ... and generous (especially with helpings of pasta). I loved the affection

  • 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!

  

  read it along with all my classmates’ posts on our class blog here. This ... you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... the literature on “Ku80 related NHEJ-repair in CHO cells,” which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... triumphs and trials, your dreams and daily lives. Vulnerability is an act of ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall/wing/entry/house/floor, your frat, your sorority, your independent living group, etc. and ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got ... was a Democrat (news to my parents!), and Adam's mom left our engraved ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007