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

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  .S. Armed Forces). I am fortunate enough to know all of our current transfer ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  / Puzzle Club website. One driving force was the motivation of wanting to ... -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... ’ profiles as if they were superheroes (we aren’t). I began to daydream of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... take different amounts of time to make art. Some artists finish overnight, others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... country, and we got to tour around different parts of MIT. (I have a vague memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  enjoy can be a good way to force yourself out of bed to go do a thing ... resulting mostly-unfiltered list of Things We Want You To Know When You Start ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  …the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... little faith. No one is expecting you to waltz onto campus with years of

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of ... . It is impossible to abstract out all of my emotions, my experiences ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... over twenty years now, they've allowed everyone to peer into the lives of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... are around three percent of people who are completely unable to ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  force myself to stick to my budget. I have hateful vivid memories of ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... of it.  (This kind of stuff is not remotely obvious to first generation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... 's fragments and, in the context of the story, are able to piece together what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  form of written record of what needs to be done when. google calendar ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... use to force myself to learn. I hope it is anyway. # I’m used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021