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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was ... -- like I had some rational thoughts earlier today [ie, in the pod lounge ... difficult class. The rational thoughts I had earlier today were roughly thus

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  about how each teacher I met that day had affected me, but there’s only so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  "Harriet Potter"). The day before yesterday I was reading my daily 30 pages ... something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload ... days I've felt a simultaneous urgency and lethargy, as if there's a place

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  MIT? “Every day you hear something unbelievable,” President Kornbluth ... is one of the greatest issues of our day has led her to pioneer the ... the very next day with an enthusiastic of course! That’s pretty cool, if

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  Thursday afternoon, my final weekday shift, and my 3:30pm break slowly ...  my birthday today! I'm officially 23 years old, aka SUPER old. Lydia K. baked

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  in themselves. A few days ago, I found myself sitting with a sophomore ... opportunities lost to snow days, professional development days, national holidays, the days that students simply skip – and you face a daunting challenge

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• 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…

  

  October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami ... sometimes take all day), neuroanatomy exams (shortly followed by a lecture on

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  strangely hoarse the following day. -- PRESENT DAY -- I’ve had ten technical ... eight weeks. I have one later today, and another tomorrow. Next week I ... days. Anomalies take precedence over whatever steady-state work is at the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  content warnings: suicide mentions 98 days. I think oftentimes it ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... one could experience together in a single day. I miss the tornados and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind ... ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  contribute my part today and the days to come and I hope you guys are with me ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... could never see yourself doing how they got where they got today. Like I ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though people ask me far less these days than they did then"]off as prying ... , and then offered me the job three days later. I’m worried I won’t know ... use, asking myself: is this grey better at 50% or 25%? Do I move this

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  down for eating $30 worth of Chinese food and watching three hours of ... absolutely exhausted from four straight days of studying (which included ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that ... in just a few days. On Friday, I will officially be [annotation note ... decided otherwise"]done with MIT.[/annotation] Today marks the end of what

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... after that.   I learned today that the microwave oven was accidentally ... am, about a day after we discovered that the fuse was blown and, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... 't just a "polite rejection." I started to hope again. ~*~ Today, I'm here

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009