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• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , you don’t need to read it first, but it might help you to understand ... don’t know exactly how well I’ll like the work I do, what projects I ... don’t like that term, because it has connotations that we shouldn’t be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... 1950s due to public criticism. Although I don't have any good sources ... , storytelling, [annotation note='I don’t talk about how the Hunt’s tech has gotten

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  . I don’t think they’ve ever been so colorful – I remember white ... you won’t hear about if you don’t leave MIT and return, one language ... no two are ever the same. They don’t always feel comfortable sharing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  summer things. But now I stand at an awkward place where I don't really want to graduate, but I don't reaaallly want to do the whole school thing ... simply just don't happen. Or, they end up wanting to do other things in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  feels different this time though: I don't think of the future as this ... something along the lines of, “I don’t know” or “It’s nothing.” You don't just ... exercise called box breathing. I realized that the kind of thoughts that don't

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in foods so I really enjoy them. I don’t flinch when people wave me over and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  going to die…?” Me: “I...what? We usually don’t.” Driver: “Which ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My ... you naturally struggle with. I don’t believe that in life you find one

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... seconds. I have listened people call problems I don’t know how to solve as ... other people don’t have, so I wanted to be. And sometimes it feels that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  don’t remember anything about it :P A Streetcar Named Desire by ... with Ayn Rand. I don’t subscribe to Objectivism (the philosophy that Rand ... to his personal standards of integrity. Don’t do something just because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  , “Don’t interfere.” When my Dean at Student Support Services first talked to my freshman advisor (or maybe my parents, I don’t recall; I still ... my leaving. I don’t know if that would have changed had I been suicidal

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  attentive yet flexible elderly care facility. When I was 18, I don't think I ... entering MIT. Don't worry, I'll wait.) And three, because I'm about to be ... 're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  'steps' don't just come out of thin air most of the time. More often than ... supposed to be doing it. But what do you do when you don't know what to do ... feel that way at MIT-- when I don't know what to do-- I no longer feel

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

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

  

  building don’t branch off, room numbers typically increase in one direction ... although they’re symmetric about that line, the buildings don’t have exactly ... these buildings often don’t get called by their building number

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... , I don’t speak Chinese” in Mandarin. This way, if someone asked me a ... elsewhere, I don’t speak Chinese”. Because, in my heart, I felt that I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But ... the keys don’t fall all the way to the bottom, nor jangle around on my ... Charger - goes with (12). Mechanical Pencil Lead - I don’t think I’ve ever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  friends I did have were friends from high school or my mom’s students. I don't ... learn how to stay happy when things don’t consistently work out. MIT makes ... time for, even if you don’t sleep. But whether you choose MIT or not, own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  who get in vs. the ones who don't ... . Stats don't get you acceptance into MIT, they get you consideration. Once ... enough mathematical capability to handle 18.01 and 18.02, they don't care

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will ...  sometimes assume that my grandparents will live forever and therefore I don't need to ... pretty bad so I guess it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that I don’t

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• 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

  

  I was there, but I don't think I ever appreciated it enough ... the jungle, because of all the plants, but I don't actually know what it ... , although theoretically, I don't think undergrads are allowed...I'll miss

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  whether they have been accepted at a certain school or not.  I don’t ... universities. I emailed some professors, and I don’t remember anyone responding ... supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020