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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I would definitely use this feature to blog lgbtq+ content.   We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular ... dormitories, but in isolated houses, gives less opportunity to cultivate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the ... family to East Boston, U.S. Class of 1888 (graduated in 1889) Course VI

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... 'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... MIT's challenges). Here's a few things to keep in mind as you begin

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my ... ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... made sure I stayed on track or close to on track each week. I turned in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview ... to have another reason to visit.   Every Thursday I have a check-in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... predecessor to the larger Women's Weekend held two years later, in 1984. In an ... in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your ... to communicate appropriately with peers in difficult situations has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  - features. Keep in mind that this guide is just an introduction; I chose to ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... , playing Rock Band, or blogging; often contrasted with tool (v.) (2) To skip

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008