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  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ’ve moved into the sun. But at the same time, the decision that I have coming ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... applications exist, will you be a different person for having spent a year at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ’s longest winning streak ever at 15 games. And just like that, our season was ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... common denominator that my life at MIT has revolved around. Every weeknight

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ? [annotation note="Hello! Cami here. This is not at all true. But I love my ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• 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 ... macroscopic form when at dynamic equilibrium. It's like a river: though the ... freshman year, "Defying That Sinking Feeling." It was a useful read at a time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  that can only be formed with some suffering. At some point - I think it ... . Imposter's Syndrome is rampant at MIT. Maybe you've already felt it ... , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my ... few years would probably be just like the one before it. I lived at home

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

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays (I'm lookin at you, word-limit violators!), handwritten recommendations

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  you match up. There are certain traits and values that are at the core ... number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... you might imagine, this is important at MIT. If you played the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the windows, and the President herself smiled warmly at me behind a pair ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing

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

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

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... three paragraphs about what I mean, I should give you at least one

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has been thrown out, and it's not at all clear if CPW will even take place

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get ... actually kept 8 hours consistently throughout because that’s at least what I ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other ... friends unconditionally affirming my place here, my last semester at MIT, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... , Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff ... random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... so far. I'm not good at transitions, and it's been a transition. At ... the kitchen, dangling my legs up at the ceiling like I used to when I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006