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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular ... development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an ... commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight to get to take classes at this level. He's really impressive. Great ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  fascinating! here is a great article, if you wanted to learn more']spread around ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly ... specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I ... “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... was these disgusting soggy noodles that I made by getting boiling water ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... situations." Only long term perservence was going to get me through this ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... start by figuring out what your big-picture goals are, and then attempt to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , or a smaller department that lets you get to know faculty more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  with all 183 teachers to get them background checked, as required by MIT ... felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... [/annotation] while you get distracted by psets, you’ll still end up with a [annotation ... [annotation note="Defined by being able to elicit the strongest preference under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016