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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... . It's like a cheat code for free travel, if your life was a video game ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, McGregor has mostly singles, so its actual cost for an average freshman is higher ... experience that may or may not suit your nutritional needs. For me, having a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  anxious. 3. A Happiness Budget Budget some money for happiness. Yes, we are ... that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... some advice for those of you worried about writing, or worried about

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... : The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... really for Course 6 (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  2020: Undergraduate experience: The second woman featured in the video ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... . This resonated with me – from when I first arrived on campus for my FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  reasons. For the Class of 2020: I want you to understand what MIT will take ... wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers. For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6 ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... far from town. Reading a book while Max plays saxophone, the windows closed so we don’t wake the neighbors. The way my mom playing Bouree in E

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  MIT’s other schools and the college. MITHIC will include seed money for ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  design lighting and sound for high school plays - there are an astounding ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... plays), Christopher Boone decides to run away from home, but he never had

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  money I get for this blog post goes toward Legos. “This building is 16 ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015