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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them. Creating optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... make it into a career. I thought I wanted to go into finance, because I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

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

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

  

  want to drop out, and if you really think you'll make more out of your ... contribute more to the world) pursuing projects or companies or whatever ... enjoy their company. I shared a home with over 300 people and I learned to

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their ... because I go to MIT doesn't make me any different, any less flesh

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] click to enlarge[/caption] To make this plot, I used a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... idea was to make a machine that could replicate and draw calligraphic ... in May. I love a good poster, but it’s cool to make graphics for more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... add a few years to your lifespan. I remember dedicating quite a few ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• 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…

  

  video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you're ... to know your teachers - class sizes generally fall around 30, and there ... usually fall around 20 and it's really easy to be good buddies with your TAs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk ... to your classes, you're preventing yourself from doing so as well ... , I want to make more friends, and to become closer with the ones I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... you go All my life has been about Waiting for people to go Your love

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself ... empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... . She said that dropping from 8.022 to 8.02 does not make anyone more or

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  to make sure every order was fulfilled correctly during the ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019