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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First ... , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter ... the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... it and you're learning a lot of new things. But it's not like you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... breakthrough on the previous occupant of the room. Digging some more through old ... ="aligncenter" width="2304"] This is probably one of the oldest murals on hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  a lot of pressure on you because it's designed to make you a good ... struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way ... ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester ... spring was essentially the time where all of the good things I got from my ... time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good ... who look like you. Those on my side of the counter may mistake this ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique ... received good grades you didn't deserve. You recognize your lack of ... new information, but that you've relied on those tools so much you never

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ?" was on a lot of mailing lists and all over Facebook. I had gotten close ... essentially a rejection. To cope, I focused on all the positives of the schools ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways ... out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer ... -step authentication enabled on my Google account (extra security sounded good at the

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn't the only way of doing things, and that your peers aren't the only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... students in any way possible. I spent a majority of the past week with these

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of ... back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez ... the tiger on my head (since it had a high center of mass) but all went

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  in New York, the vast majority of people you see on Edgware Road are ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... feel like this is a good example of what most of your freshman year looks ... does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  of the pandemic, Spark was in a new format this year: usually it ... you to do it this way, but that's kind of hard, so I usually just do it ... finished class #2 I realized that I had stained an entire block of wood on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of ... the graders will spend no more than a couple of minutes on your essay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I

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

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

  

  fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things ... more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011