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• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective?

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  bought later? Does anyone even exist like that? ..Oh yeah, I do. 'Sup ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  was AWESOME. do recommend. there‘s also a short video series on the ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

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

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  , I asked myself "What am I doing here? I'm not even watching the ... , I gave her a hug and said "It's okay, I love you. Do you want your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study

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

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

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing ... books and do the things I wanted. To some extent, I did. I was ... goats, and do random crafts to keep up the charm: make goat cheese and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... time!), I wouldn't be able to do that without retrieving a verification

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... research you’re doing for a paper, and almost anything else. Vim, a popular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  feel about it. But I do hope it gives you some insight into what it ... story. Many times, my friends, family (and even I myself) ask why I do

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... something constructive to do rather than getting in to trouble. In the last 25

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... things about the lab are winding the big inductors yourself, doing all your

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , but honestly, I couldn't do this job if I disconnected myself from the ... , then really, why am I doing this at all? Others would disagree, but then

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... project and what I need to do over the next week or so. 6:35 -- I arrive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  the heck of it. We had no experience and no clue what we were doing, but ... the math competition that actually know what they’re doing, not silly me ... school ended, and I had homework to do, but I was too stressed out to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... ”--our family in Ethiopia, and how they were doing, who was doing what. My cousins ... Mekele student to do a geographical survey for one of their wells, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  something to do with the separation of labor of our hunter ... the school day to do whatever we wanted, but come high school it was ... . And I know it sounds annoying to say, but I do think that I’m smart

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015