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

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• 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 ... Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross

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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... like them, but seek not to make them like you. Family and friends say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS ... a grad student, I didn't make time for sleep or exercise, or to eat ... sweatpants, and give them to a smiling volunteer holding an enormous bag full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information

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

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

  

  , and hopefully I'll use it to make it a little better. Ironically, it ... I can't make a real life light-saber just because I have access to ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... I had a lot to contemplate about the newer stories I want to write

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to ... research and find schools where you'll be happy than just applying to a

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... . Make a spreadsheet first, of course.      

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure ... make choices and zoom in, and there’s this whole world again.  To sketch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... I figured out I had to move. It took me a while, but I got up the courage to move to a floor where I knew almost no one. And it turned out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012