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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret ... need to study harder!” no longer makes sense: you need to re-evaluate how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... promised. I decided I wanted to make a sword. How better to combine dragons and swords than to make the hilt be a dragon?   [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  impossible, but I think it makes it a little harder to step back in, especially ... statement a hell of a lot easier (though it will), or because this will make ... *voluntary* thing that is totally unnecessary to living a happy, fulfilling

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... because you tried. Every year around this day, I try to make an encouraging ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... options were 1) submit a rebuttal to this conference, 2) withdraw from this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... done to trust your gut, especially when it tells you to make a choice you ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] click to enlarge[/caption] To make this plot, I used a ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... . I was scheduled to work that morning. I’m pretty sure I did a horrible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... they could make a supercomputer using nothing but soda cans, hairspray, 3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014