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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to fourteen hours a day to be functional while awake. I came to MIT ... that hung over every day. I didn’t feel sad all of the time, as some ... day, silent, became my modus operandi. I had never had to ask for help

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... , and most people here still tackle MIT bit by bit, one day at a time ... rise over the Charles - there will be days when you stumble through your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  getting ready to one day go to college, and suddenly COVID was supposed to ... classes. And now here I am, preparing for one day being ready to leave. It ... all the things he will one day do. And he essentially says: "You know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very intelligent ... after lecture several days a week. I left because if I stayed, the next ... . I had lunch with my mom every day, and I could visit my parents (both

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... magical phenomenon called Reg Day, where you're required to physically go to ... on Reg Day and change everything. Most upperclassmen have adopted this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... when one day an MIT Campus Police car showed up on top of the Great Dome ... were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days ... call I had gotten two days earlier, teasing me with the idea that I might ... . The binder was born November 21, 2007. The same day breast cancer took

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  historical 1809 Park Street Church. On mild-weather days, my friends and I love ... Italian deserts. On warm days, the North End restaurants also open up their ... available 24 hours a day, every day. I have been told that every student must

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into space with their own homemade rocket (from their own homemade submarine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  professors. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn ... day. Working things out between friends is best done in person, not ... second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... the science competition results came in I battled each day with the fact

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  confident that we’ve averaged about two per day since October 27, so maybe I ... , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... somewhere on a whim, etc. Or on some funky days, it might actually mean

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT ... ). Just a few days after CPW, I comMITed and happily joined the MIT Class of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  first students to arrive in the fall and practice twice per day before the ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... /"short written responses"/whatever they’re calling them these days- This sounds

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... Thursday because I had three midterms in three days. Sometimes, scheduling

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009