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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... celebrities I mean? Me [!!!]: “NO, STARS IN THE SKY!!!” Anyway. The point is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , and no matter how hard you try you cannot seem to unsubscribe from it ... at. No one else is around. You thought Pharos was supposed to keep this ... must be what MIT is like, right? No one would say The Milk doesn’t belong

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... protected, and “cases involving immigrants and families with no criminal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  -10 years (not yet). I had no idea that I would bike halfway across the country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’s no reason that you need to take 10 years to learn them! I hope that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 ... it's really different for every person, and there is truly no one ... ever seen. There is no getting around it, and you might as well be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take ... itself now?” Senior: “No.” Me: “So what do we have to do?” Senior: “Divide ... the operations by rote memorization: they have no idea what a fraction

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  no machine can tell you. You've been warned. Click.) 3. The first and ... the graders will spend no more than a couple of minutes on your essay ... read before. What does this mean? No "happily ever after" endings, no

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  suddenly complex and problematic. I could no longer walk into a room with the ... , smooth rock wall with no discernible points of purchase and no way over ... machine, and the intellectual wiring no longer electrocuted everyone who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy ... remembered that we were standing in a wooden box with no electronics inside, so ... together in one group, while I was left alone in the other. Giving me no

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  malalapitan; here I am, drenched from the rain, nowhere to find shade, no one to ... rain. There's this impression of rain being a solitary experience. No ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in ... tree. Pockets have no capacity to sense, so they must find an anchor spot ... atmosphere, with no signs of clearing in the next few weeks (months? years

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  a literary agent and published a book. But I found no joy in self ... their own language. But I found no fulfillment in exploiting economic loopholes, no matter how beautiful the numbers were. I’m nearly twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  robot falls down a ramp in a walking motion (no power, no motors, no

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... college when I actually felt like saying no to people who would ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting, excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... step is particularly key because you have no idea how the text in your

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... something about how I didn’t think so, no, and I personally wasn’t an ... my mind. Look, there’s no real upside to pretending that people don

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... ’s no well-defined path, and there’s certainly not a projected end date ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  spent the rest of the day coloring. There was no swooping deus ex machina ... TV every now and then, and trying not to say no to opportunities to go ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... becomes blessed/cursed with the inability to say "no" to any particular ... you are. No one has it figured out - and that's awesome. So just keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  as a result, coming in with no research experience or major math ... , no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... science fairs and research competitions existed. No joke. I took the "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008