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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  think I still don't. Technology Enhanced ... Active Learning? Am I right

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  love you <3 (and if you don't I probably love you too)"]such tenuous ... expanded again. It is full of people I know and love, and people I don't know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  occasionally shop for bok choy and Asian pears, but I don’t think it’s known for ... and stock up on bulk staples, but many people in Cambridge don't have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don’t ... light that they use for, well, appointments women have and men don’t, is

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  cringeworthy stanzas below. Pls don’t judge. English is not my first language ... one windowsill Time management sucks. I don’t sleep every night. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... conversation to remember. I could never learn from a professor I don’t know

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  characteristically as I read it. And oddly, I don't really remember much else of that ... -shoppers. Now playing: "Don't Download This Song" by Weird Al It was dark and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  holistic admissions. They just don't like the marginal output that any ... most of your opportunities. Because we don't care about what you've done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  from back when I was five or so has me at some pool somewhere - I don't ... ." "Don't wait until you're almost out of breath to breathe - breathe when

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  year room in Next House (my Baker rooms have better views but I don't ... requirements), but in general you can’t whatever interests you. If you don’t feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• 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.

  

  write notes to myself - "IF YOU DON'T READ THIS CHAPTER RIGHT NOW, I ... (chemical-biological engineering).. I don't know what I was thinking. Thanks

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  probably don't say to your face for fear of inflating your ego: that you ... . I don't expect it (or anything else) to be comforting at this moment

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree... don't tell me. I ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  while I probably had heard of MIT, I don’t think I knew anything beyond ... . Mandana Sassanfar organized it all. Thanks, Mandana!) To be honest, I don’t ... way. I don’t want to be a person that keeps pushing myself

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  I love too much to wear, or the ones I don't actually like. Usually I ... questions have easy answers, but a lot of the answers are "we don't know yet ... floor's communal fridge. I actually don't need to leave for my meeting yet

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... didn't like it. I eventually transferred to yet another school. But I don't ... universe, it was me. But I don't regret this decision either, even when I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  should keep in mind when going through college—grades don’t matter ... ="they don’t matter for most people, for those going into prehealth, prelaw ... "]**[/annotation] [annotation note="and by “don’t matter” i mean they don’t really make a tangible

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , most of all, a LOT of unshaming. I don’t know if that’s a real word but ... is something you are ashamed of, that’s okay. I don't want to spout “3 ... 're all human and complex and I don’t think it’s that easy. But know that it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  their time, and therefore one that I don't want to claim to answer for all ... oneself is pretty important. One popular answer which I fundamentally don't ... . notably, however, i don't explicitly rule out that life broadly does not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021