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

  

  fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day ... recommendation <3 She is very awesome! :) He's just an objectively wonderful

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... , and then Tulane waitlisted her, and then MIT accepted her, but she was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Ben Bell Sophomore MIT-Israel Program Internship: Ben Gurion ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with

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

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full, sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  is proof enough that MIT students have enough time in their lives to ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... I was late (what else is new), but then I got distracted by Benson L

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

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  , we consider two flavors. The more common form is exploratory hacking, which is also the older one: there's never been a point at which people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  that MIT is hard. It’s not just the workload. There’s this feeling that ... a challenge. MIT is paradise. I cry sometimes. I love it here. My only ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we made it halfway through MIT, which is no small feat! Ring Premiere is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... ="aligncenter" width="525"] can you guess where it is[/caption] It's like doing the MIT ... desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... MIT Application went live. As many of you know, last year's application

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible ... normal physics class in every way. From the outside, it is just MIT physics ... taking the time to learn the "long" way. After all, MIT is a marathon, not

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously ... posts + this podcast). But finally, against many odds, the well is ... announcing this positive development (such MIT lol). Targeted Issues and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018