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  yeeting classes bye

  

  .[/annotation] but ultimately, I realized that this class wasn't worth it. it wasn't ... mathematics!"]majors[/annotation] and it wasn't a graduation requirement and I wasn't enjoying it at all. I wanted to devote more energy to the other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But ... accumulated into internal goosebumps. And when that wasn't enough, eventually ... sob. I can't remember the last time I cried like that. Alone and on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students ... , basic Japanese, partial differential equations (I don't know multivariable ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  morning and you're feeling overwhelmed. Maybe that problem isn't making ... power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  who haven't said anything yet... If you were admitted to a college, I ... and gone, and for those of you who haven't responded yet (who haven't ... worse. Plus, it doesn't have to be goodbye forever--we can still be

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  second home hasn't been the easiest idea to pound into my often-stubborn brain, to be honest. I didn't immediately have the "IHTFP" (of the ... decide: my friends here are awesome and I wouldn't trade them for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and ... , qualified, well-matched students who applied to us, something we don't ... amongst our admits. Very cool. By the way, don't write down these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don’t ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn't ... from below, then from the sides. The colors didn't change at all from the sides; when viewed from the bottom, they became more pronounced, but didn't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... to get started with them. Sure, I could do stuff, but today I don't ... , Thursday, and Friday. The only reason Saturday and Sunday weren't included

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun ... it was less of a time commitment. As a wind player, I often don’t

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  that! Brothers, sisters, grandparents! Okay, I exaggerate. I wasn't the only one whose parents didn't come, but sometimes it felt that way, and I ... Chicago just isn't worth it for a weekend. But my Family Weekend was not

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  drives 21 t-shirts 2 cell phone cleaning pads 15 LED flashlights 6 ... Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones with retractable cord, which I haven’t tested 8 tote bags 11 sharpies

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might ... you can imagine, an EMT that can't handle a stretcher with someone on it isn't all that useful. Channeling the spirit of "practice makes perfect

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  third week or so, which would make that test the “midterm”. I don’t like ... as a harmless sounding “Exam 1”. I also don’t like how I borderline ... didn’t straight up bomb it and get that painful “fail-mail” in my inbox

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  , it was halfway through that book when I finally couldn't take any more ... , but clearly that's not going to happen now - one of my grades still hasn't been posted, so it doesn't feel like this term is really over yet. Also

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  . Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done anything Nobel Prize worthy, so I don't really qualify for other scholarships

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I’ve spent time on campus. I haven’t missed a class reunion since I ... to the place although I really didn’t have a spot to call my own on the ... late nights (but not all night) reading application files. I didn’t take

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... won't stop cranking that Soulja Boy. I'm slightly better today, but all jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  wha--!? "Um," I replied, "Well, I don't know anything about college ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008