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  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
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  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 / 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
• 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 ... 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using ... Computation and Cognition, @hydreajia on Instagram. With physics as a graduation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading ... in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  on a Thursday, already an indication that it wildly exaggerates all ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... help you to understand. Maybe you think the admissions process works like

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011