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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  can drop by anytime the next day or later to get their work. This was my ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting ... . [carousel image1="105154" image2="105162" image3="105173" image4

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... were using, or the circumstances of the job? Maybe it's a personal reason, like burn out, or overjustification effect. I had no clue why I liked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  complete a task such as a problem set or a test or a long trip. It can present itself physically - via heart palpitations or sweating or the ... "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  meeting and cool off for a bit.   1 day until final presentations ... added that students were being taught to use computer programs to make ... ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wake up a day later. You’re still tired. You’re always tired. You slept all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... ’re stuck here. Your friends can’t tell if you’re laughing or crying. You

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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  who makes dinner 5/7 days of the week and sandwiches every day for lunch ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  only lonely third wheel, I added Stanford. I’m not quite sure what I was aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... 40 minutes just in case it starts to burn down. [carousel image1

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  somewhere on a whim, etc. Or on some funky days, it might actually mean ... great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... . That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to ... . Anecdote 1: My family came to visit me about a year ago. My mom was always

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  nice view,” I said. “It’s a different view than looking from a bridge or ... . You know that feeling when you’re hanging out with people, but Facebook ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  immense amount of support from depression Day 1. People who have depression ... conference. Unlike the weather, I was not beaming. I felt heavy. Two days ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Day 1 [caption id="attachment_86583" align="aligncenter" width="225 ... ="768"] The results of day 1.[/caption] Day 2 [image_grid images="86815 ... brighten your day: [carousel image1="86598" image2="86599" image3

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  ']semester[/annotation], as we locked ourselves in Metropolis or N52 almost every day ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... first with: a] the things 1 - a book about conversations and norms

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  adMITtance (aka the MIT Class of 2023 Facebook group), I stopped ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020