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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  inevitably, the intoxicating allure of the corporate world and all of its ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide

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

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... friend who was running, and we went out in the dead of night to hang it in ... classes had projects (most of them group projects) due, and this was the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  first relationship because we were hundreds of miles apart, the steady ... all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the ... shameful, and the lack of proper emotional responses meant that it was hard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of ... physical wellbeing. So I scrapped all of the memes and jokes I made about my ... transitional stage between high school and college, all while in the midst of a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau ... summer residents at tEp. The first house dinner was an exciting blur of new ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on-the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even ... technical aspect of these structures, outside of pointing out the length and ... large, concrete towers and the rows of cables that fan out and cut the sky

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  also remind myself of my previous moments of uncertainty and on the whole ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river ... part of the well that will need the most maintenance and we sourced ... ). The depth of this well is also what makes the water clean, and prevents

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... the contributions of other fields and individuals, particularly those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  above) for the first time—super fun and tiring! There are a number of ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... , but then I’ll have a lot of work and not have time to do the creative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the ... bottom of the wood you're varnishing and dry in a yucky clump, and not ... any of my own tools and usually just use the ones in EC's basement, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  music, and read a book or write a blog post. And the fear of missing out ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT ... rectangles. Studs of white and yellow light glittering from the silhouettes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others—and ... ’s detailed, perceptive prose, her humor, and most of all, Ifemelu—the confident ... -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  responsibilities, but you don't have to lose your sense of wonder and excitement. The ... 'thank you' and be proud of the person you're becoming and the work you ... can quickly become distracting, and the feeling of curling up in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... circumstances were out of my control, and I made the best with what I had. I ... that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university ... provocative or, yes, offensive?” And the Yale chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... years and it gave me one of the things I will treasure most - toughness

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  facilitating any kind of event. The first time was when Hahn and I got a bunch of ... part, a tiny portion of how the whole program worked, and I still don ... ,120 were first-years. This means that there were nearly double the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019