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

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... you’re curious to know something, MIT will give you the tools to figure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... will be able to handle this much force on it. Go back to your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... +/Hulu/Netflix if you're trying to take a study break kitchen with snacks free tea ... adjacent to this area, so it might get loud between 7 and 11 pm Building 36

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  victories and your shortcomings, to an admissions committee. The person who ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack ... , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... 's focused on you and your stories. Use these opportunities to tell a story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... not to you.      You may give them your love but not your thoughts ... , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.      You may strive to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... friend, to walk out of your dorm room now and genuinely ask how the person

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... healthy dose of Acceptance to wash down your Rejection ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018