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• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  of their life, but at the same time…. I don’t want to say bye just yet ... don’t get me wrong over this past year I have made amazing connection ... ;- these don’t seem like real years to me), but there is still something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... people's—it's okay if I don't snag a tech internship or take engineering ... places. It's okay if I don't sell a novel before I turn twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  , because I worked a job all summer. Don't do this if you can avoid it, kids ... . When freshmen take on more leadership roles, older students don't get as ... music so I don't forget it, and trying not to lose my mind. <3

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you. We don’t want to say something like: if you feel X, then you will ... here, we don’t regret it.  This is our journey. We’ve had lows

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  don’t say them at all. Impulse purchases = a bulging closet but no ... emergencies and flashlight needs. Don’t wait for things to be taken away to be ... . Laugh hard and laugh often. And there you have it. I don’t think I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was ... recommend looking up Megaman if you don't know what it is, it's a really ... you count geometry, which I don't -_-). I'm gonna be busy af next

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  top-notch, but I really don’t think that’s the point. I’m here to get my ... exciting, but only if you feel comfortable to learn, and you don’t feel like ... , people speak so fast that I literally don’t understand what they’re saying

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  the fences when they don’t even close? Cars here slow down for a deer ... added a "2"—  is cooler, right? Now when I visit Ohio, I don’t need a ... but don’t do work. Makes sense why students are so excited about these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length ... 'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don't ... because they give me a chance to tell people what they mean to me. i don't

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  her there. So, I’m excited! I don’t speak the local language, I have no ... connected now than ever. I don’t have to seek out other mixed people to relate ... culture or country. I don’t know that it’s that I feel 20% American, as I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day ... Russia. that we still be stuck playing the blame game that I don't ... don't be afraid to talk. We could all use a little support, respect

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  all, is something which we don't seem to want to look at, and that is the person. A country is only as good--I don't care now about the ... you and me. I don't believe any longer that we can afford to say that it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  if it’s too hard, we don’t have to read this piece again. She concedes ... .” Here’s a quote from it I love the most: "What most people don’t seem to ... had special powers and heroic adventures. Now it’s a new day. If I don’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  across the board: It’s been tried, it doesn’t work, students don’t vote ... ’t. But the authorities in our lives now don’t have reason to care about you or who you are at all. At least not if you don’t care who they are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  whatever else you're working on. I don't know if GPA is that strong of a ... is mostly about approaching problems flexibly.  Don't bias yourself ... 's ideas, even if you don't initially understand them.  Consider the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  and struggles as much as, if not more than I do, even if they don't look ... better. I don't know what to do different" I feel ya. And it may be ... badly on the first midterm realize that they don't understand the material

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... , spirit, and inspiration of the astronauts on stage. I don't remember ... your problems. And when there are problems you don't know how to deal

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  become seniors and seniors become crufty, sophomores don't need to be ... you are on Pass/No Record and don't want to have to worry about getting ... your peers or that you don't belong at MIT, it just means that maybe you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a ... that I don't think I was making enough time for myself. I wasn't sleeping ... from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  . *They're separated by lots of wall, don't worry. It's 2pm. Goggles on ... : "Um. I don't know anything about that, sorry. And the guy who does is in ... office lady: "I don't know anything about it, sorry." Me: "Okay." Swim

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013