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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is ... applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  couple of e-mails on my behalf to people he knew in his department, which ... find a UROP, I should wander the halls of the department and knock on office doors with copies of my resume on-hand. Sounds a little intimidating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... solution! Make sure to spend a lot of time on font, text size, color palette ... train of thoughts (trains of thought? trains of thoughts? being on the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of ... put on the blinders. Never try to wrest too much control of your life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... relationships”: a non-exclusive relationship based on multiple interactions of a ... point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... someone who has mentored hundreds of students, many of whom have gone on to ... depending on the program. Most programs publish the average scores of admitted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  undergrad who had juggled this project on top of a full course load and other ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... around the room and use the clues written on the walls, but instead of ... of us got to solidify our legacy by writing our names in Sharpies on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  for their work on nanophotonics, and there was never any question of ... merrily on 9.12 (Neurobiology Lab) to 9.15 (Biochemistry and Pharmacology of ... what color sweatpants I finally decided on. (We're back to grey as of now.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You think that you’re on the list because of the Activities Fair back in ... . You drift asleep on Saferide. The same gaggle of Asian women in shiny ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... beavers emblazoned on the front. We point them in the direction of the ... returned too. A couple of months later, a girl I’d just met on the student

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  and Barcelona (where I’d worked on an internship), biology and a host of ... went to the nearby CVS and bought one of the DVD’s that was on sale. The ... Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... overnight--it’s a long, long road, with a lot of checkpoints on the way, like ... homework again and study for exams or work on projects. Some of the best

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017