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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... I thought was a fitting playlist that was made up of electronic beats

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... to be, regardless of where you end up for college. Have faith in ... matter where you end up" Maseeh Anonymous '16 - "A school or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  being: face angled down, shoulders hunched up, body language that said ... all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the ... situation caught up with me. I started writing, on one of my social media

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... drunk. I couldn’t stand up properly, so I went back to bed. I lay down. When I woke up again, it was 9 pm, and I realized I hadn’t eaten anything

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might ... : what would I accomplish by head-butting this repeatedly? I jumped up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... they ended up and roll their eyes when reminded of how much they thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... already in the room. She was getting help with a 6.036 lab. As I finished up ... picked up her laptop and walked twenty feet to the other side of the room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and ... and stock up on bulk staples, but many people in Cambridge don't have ... the produce market and other vendors making up 60% of volume. Daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  came up with all sorts of bad ideas that pushed our stomachs, hearts, and ... [annotation note="tbh, my current self too"]5 year old self[/annotation] jump up ... I voluntarily climbed up an 18-story building 22 times. I did this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  leading up to the decision. And dear reader, I was super rekt. Consciously ... parents every day, I wish I'd stocked up before I left.)) In the end, I didn't end up going to that school, or even really liking it that much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... procrastination caught up to me Weekdays 17:00-19:00 had a slight lack of edits ... it all worth it?  My data shows me that I was up at nearly all hours

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy ... adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . He flew the drone up. And up. And over the water. And a little more ... drone up. And up. And over the lighthouse. And past the lighthouse over

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  wake up after a series of unfortunate events, unfinished nights ... fucked up. If your subconscious doesn’t keep you down, you’ll wish it did ... you up to 1 email a day until you find “unsubscribe.” You will want a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the ... admissions officer. The only rule is that I don't make stuff up about this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012