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  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i ... freshman year was to do a good job to whatever i commit to. through my own ... everybody seemed to know each other and was doing better than me. it took a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... injuries from heart attack, strokes, and liver damage. TL;DR: I am doing a ... I want to do that. It’s also a time to finish up projects, work out

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week ... you down in a big way—although that happens—but doing difficult ... did do afterward that I consider a mistake, though, is not owning my

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI ... bigger picture, why we’re doing what we’re doing. It’s a breath of fresh

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin quite a bit, but I'm also working! This summer, I’m doing an ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry, painting, dancing) be valued as much as a techie passion (like building stuff ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a ... role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... do a lot of thinking about other people thinking, which seemed just ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  high school friends, getting to do undergraduate research is a pretty big ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people ... ="225"] assembly[/caption]   I really do feel like I’m losing a ... 2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond ... interested in doing a sort of "B.A. Nerd" themed photoshoot complete with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  're doing a puzzlehunt," which is a strong enough narrative to stand on its ... ."]an hour a week[/annotation] doing things for Hunt. I couldn't hold a ... candle I hold, if the best I can do is hold a candle. The structure depends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  do great things, because if you had the guts to apply to a place like ... now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who ... of them have a lot more help than you think they do.  And if you do

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020