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

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  out though, and are sometimes recognizable as real objects. Here are ... many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  previously conditioned to when the sun set at 7 and I went to bed at 11. Only ... fantastic professor who occasionally brought us fruit and dessert.   I ... , terming the disorder a mystery both to the onlookers and the affected

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... participate in research while they're here - in labs and machine shops and offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  but highly functional. It has one rack, some benches and free weights, a ... . It comes equipped with a rack, plenty of free weights, and various ... terms of its equipment. Not all of the plates match, and many of them are

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Facebook. Someone I knew from a hanging out online was an early employee, and ... see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as unsettled. Will they like ... analytically and solve with solid evidence and clear thinking. Sometimes, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to ... than I give to, like how I go to SaveTFP and get free food, or how I ... dinner. I've never done anything in exchange for all their free food, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  get a long-term visa to the U.S. and the first question they asked him ... morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  things in my free time and go to the gym everyday and cook food and, well ... . Repeat. Next day. Repeat. My friends and I have been talking about lately how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  complaining and hunting down unhealthy free food. I can deal with it." And then ... relatives and family friends and even people I don’t know, in terms of checks ... could someday leave the confines of my imagination and become a real thing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  accepted me immediately and the third offered me a UROP but no money, which ... either get paid $9 an hour or you get basically a free "A" and one class ... orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , right? Rumors and ‘leaks’ had been circulating all morning. We knew that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  relented and went to the technicians for help. It was not the accidental slot ... and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the ... wonderful people that I’m still friends with and was genuinely excited about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  from one to another, looking for free trials and showers. This usually ... stations, and every time I went running meant an hour-long search for free ... , because my checking was at flat zero and I owed the smiling landlord money

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don ... kinda takes away all your free time) and I'm venturing out on a new cross ... I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020