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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  - but propel yourself along. The secret to floating, as you may know, lies

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  . Otherwise known as the ketchup of argumentative conversations, “function” may

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  parents may tell you. There is never only one thing to consider, and this is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  students do). Anyway, to anyone I may have met in NYC, or in Washington DC

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide ... stock, simmer (do not boil, as the sauce may break). [optional] add

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of the new dormitories. Sixty-eight years later, in May of 1994, the ... police cruiser, on top of the Great Dome sixty-eight years later in May ... Engage in Battle over Blazing Wrecks” (May 21, 1928) Included images

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  're trying to provide a well-organized collection of facts to a reader that may or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college ... one draws you closer to the author? It's not surprising that you may

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , not a single path, and you may or may not have gotten a chance to ... , published in 2010 in Proofs from the Book. You may have noticed a theme ... a positive real number of pearls (which may or may not be an integer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  bad. It’s a method that may not work for everyone, but it helped me a ... research (faculty may ask you about it) and reading up on your interviewer ... -transformative years ahead of me, so in 2023 (oof that sounds so far off) I may have a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this format. Some of these went [annotation note="if you know..you know"]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

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

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  things, or had more helicopter-y parents. Some may have had a strong

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  . Live in colors. Life may be grey. But that doesn’t mean you should live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  chillier than May feels like it should be. I walked a little further this day ... -but-not-completely-finished draft, written by me, living in an email from May 2019. Oof.) 11.04 am

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  sexualities—be prepared to accept them and, please, listen. You may never understand someone’s experience, and in fact empathy may be the worst reaction

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  the adjacent parking lot, to the annual May Day riots in the fifties ... 2000 East Campus Rush t-shirt design, or the May 6, 1952 issue of The

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015