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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... language we now all speak so naturally. A language that we must learn to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... “typical” four-year timespan. 16% works out to a little less than 1/6 of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to ... very interesting, and we were forced to read a ton of papers to get up to ... couple of papers a week, which I felt helped me a lot to get context for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... applied to ten institutions in total, a period marked by significant ... if you were lucky enough to get into MIT. I think I’ve grown a lot most

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  accumulate enough socks and underwear to get away with that, but try to have a ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... could I define myself by claiming to be one of them. Three I’m gay. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  shaped by Nisha, which was never a bad thing, just frustrating. I ... I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020