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  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  combine any Engineering field and any Humanities field. It’s different from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (S^3) - For help with managing classes and getting extensions or

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

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

  

  even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  any entry ever posted on these blogs.  I know I'm retired but Inri137's

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that still seems to…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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…

  

  , because they don't have one yet. P.S. The Advising & Support page also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  major (21S) in Writing and Mathematics, a second major in 6-3 (Computer ... be a small, positive part of the experience of some of the 2024s as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  .279, and hopefully getting in touch with more 15-1's to talk to them about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to “reflect upon my MIT experience.” :P Technically, I’m not kicked out from the blogs until the end of the summer,…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors either yields blissful…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  now. For current MIT students, particularly the 2016s who may soon be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nano Electronics (New): Quantization, wavefunctions and Schrodinger?s ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in ... -famous biomedical engineer and MIT professor Robert Langer. He’s won almost every

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  ] Today’s Opportunities? I skimmed through it and what caught my eye was the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point ... wanting to talk about the classes, but rather what came from it. So it’s not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  . How? S.I. prefixes. So if you're kinda excited about something, you ... pretty nano-understanding of mechanical engineering, meaning there's little

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  views forever (looking at you, Music Building; also MIT Nano is very cool ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false dichotomy... because 1) it doesn't have to be one or the other, and 2) it’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes ... ), three buttons, power switch, 9V battery, and Arduino Nano. The hardest ... to my Arduino Nano. There was very little documentation online about

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025