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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  came on, the music started, and all thoughts of the audience disappeared ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  together. Some of us go home, some of us set out on adventures, and some of ... of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... like math and science."   This definitely hits home for me. At MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  general bangs, bruises, and muscle pain. On the upside, several of the ... and Wednesday nights for about three hours each!) Get sick of working on ... himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh

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

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... of the college search and admission process (without the misguided ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  worked out the physics of shockwaves and high-energy collisions on a ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... out and all I got was a very static-y version of my name and something

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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  pros and cons of staying at home were as follows: Pros: Safety and ... out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... after graduating and dumping all of it into clumsy stupid words on a page ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... drop date. I came into MIT with a lot of hopes and ideas of what I was ... be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... (ahem, American companies, what's going on?). I used three of those days

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that Saturday overnight shift on the ambulance, I've barely had any time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting ... curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  know and carry on with them. You will not encounter any alum that do not ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011