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

  

  . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... calculus -- and why? Not because I had grown to understand that being smart was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  ), and it was amazing to be constantly surrounded by people who were driven ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  's no better way to avoid over or under-doing anything than by just doing ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... that rectangle to a desired height, which can be adjusted with a slider

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  valedictorian. I like to think that I deserved to be valedictorian; that I am ... Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... experiences and the way being a Black woman has shaped their MIT experiences

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the[annotation note="this turns out to be a very consistent way to start ... I make my way through what promises to be[annotation note="more on ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  of the important people on his way out. This was going to be the chance ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... going to be chosen and complaining about how more should be invited etc

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  'd actually be a paragraph in a giant book about the Taj Mahal. I had to take a ... by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a ... still had my essay. But, okay, there was no way I was going to finish this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... my mind. I wanted to hug them, and tell them that everything would be ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... the way back from Harvard, I look forward to seeing familiar faces and ... is on their way to the World Solar Challenge in Australia! Support them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  could I define myself by claiming to be one of them. Three I’m gay. I ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark ... . I tell her this, and she says, “You have to be curious. If not, things ... Kornbluth trained as a cancer biologist, which has led her to be passionate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be ... : you end on why your work is important, and what you're going to be doing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford ... last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... to all the people I’ve met along the way. This place has so much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My ... ways. Figure 2: Underwear Color by Guesstimated Binary Gender Figure 3 ... around but end up where they started: they seem to be occasional staples

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . But now I'm worried that I won't be able to catch up to these kids and ... . Please feel free to be honest... if you think that my sort of person can ... farther (I had heard of the AIME but wasn't even close to being considered

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing ... drone flying, is yachting. Sailing yachting, to be specific. Larry also

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015