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

  

  going to make mistakes. Forgive yourself and take responsibility for your ... grow apart. If people no longer add positivity to your life, make space ... don't have to become your closest (or only) friends. Keep exploring

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... make choices about how their living group operated, the input we got to ... that the only way to make it through here is by working with and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I ... important. Knowing you have things to look forward to, even if you’re not ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  ’t work. You add some print commands to the broken part. Your code works. You are afraid to take the print commands out. Your code stops working ... . You raise it to your wall and take a reading. Your eye twitches

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  and speakers and all -- you know, those devices that are meant to make your voice loud enough to speak over loud and large crowds of people ... ONLY thing that seemed to make everyone quiet down. And the reading of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  opportunities to invest in yourself and grow in your craft happen when you’re ... another shouldn’t (ideally) detract from your own. I used to be so sad about ... tell you what to base your worth in, but try not to center it on grades

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  education is to learn as much as possible. 2) Make all of your figures before ... supplementary figure section to make sure your reader has a thoroughly ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  simply spun it off as a "Oh, we're this company and we make mistakes but ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• 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 ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  start a company, you have to make sure that all your employees are working ... of (my crush) Aubrey Plaza to “Make all your decisions based on how ... Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any ... categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize

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

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  got an error message that says "Sorry: We're working fast to make improvements to this area. Check back soon to nominate your school ... over to their website and vote for us! We can do it!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... . Here are some pared-down (and edited to make legible and remove ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your

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

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you’re ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch breaks. A distinctive laptop sticker to identify your computer. So you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... websites. "So what do you like about compsci then, Cami?" And if I were to ... means 'It's up to you.' or 'Whatever floats your boat.' Which seems like a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  helping make these kinds of decisions. In the meantime, we talked to other ... have virtual Zoom classrooms, rather than asking teachers to make ... restart them: you're hosting another meeting, do you want to end the other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020