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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... getting a bad education. Choosing MIT just might make the whole process a ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... make you happy. Live a little. Heck, live a lot.

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... things: things that make you smile, things that make you want to crawl

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  .20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very ... last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years ... made no effort to absorb it. I didn’t make many new friends, and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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 ... ...3...4", I realized that I wasn't really composed enough to hold a conversation

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... that used to freeze me up around water. As a recovering perfectionist, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture ... a large-scale construction project to throw [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• 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 ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... opportunity to be a researcher there and surpass my own wildest dreams. Blue

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  make it into a career. I thought I wanted to go into finance, because I ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a ... Kornbluth trained as a cancer biologist, which has led her to be passionate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to make sure. 10:06 AM: Wikipedia. 10:07 AM: Facebook. 11:45 AM ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014