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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... hopefully). Thanks to all the trainers, who have patched up every inch of my ... Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... as the others. For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO or at least the USAMO or have won some science

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... returned to Next, running out the dregs of our time together. Eventually, it ... who have made your life so wonderful for the past year or more go. As I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... 't really have lives outside of lab, but it's fun to pretend.) This year I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... many returners this time that the staff members need to be shunted off to ... semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  could have been. I’ve found myself unable to sleep until 3 AM many times ... having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... when you pour into it. It’s great to have that smaller support network

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ’ve moved into the sun. But at the same time, the decision that I have coming ... . But I didn’t expect that when it came time to write that blog, I would ... is the spiritual successor to on success, meaning, and time. Obviously

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload ... unexpectedly long time to wear off, maybe because it coincided with other starts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the ... . We talk about MIT, of course, because what else have we to talk about ... always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  much as I wanted to. Have you packed your things? Not as much as I ... . Have you said your goodbyes? Not as much as I wanted to. Eight. For ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  that. Me: I thought you might have something to do with it. Dumbledore ... comes to MIT and leaves knowing what he or she loves, then we have done ... professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  ’t all just limited to one weekend: events have been happening since Monday ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... whenever you have a large text dataset, the immediate response should be to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of ... at the time--fretting over which class to take because I was suddenly ... , and by the time I finished I will have been an undergraduate researcher

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with ... to have any until 8pm. I mean, it's issue night and he drew working

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  .” “And what are my priorities?” “You’re willing to maintain your mental health to the extent that it helps you be a good biologist. You’re willing ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  more time than I should to complete the first Python psets, I sheepishly ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  -person, to work on it. When your friends have full-time jobs and are thousands ... theater, you have time to digest it and like discuss it over dinner," he ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012