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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  decision to bend our knees and take a dunk. I remember my body being a ... water, with the rational side of me giving way to trepidation. The bad ... when you're done; you also get some well-earned sleep, to be sure, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... , too. And by extension, they desire things and dream of being something ... always wanted to be a writer. Just like I’ve always wanted to be a farmer

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  note="I was coming out of the MIT List Center, only to be greeted by ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... for Anime Music Video), pretending to be Pokemon trainers and biking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might ... by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... .806 office hours, it's my turn to be hopelessly confused. I ask questions that ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is ... Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my ... , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around ... twenty minutes by bike, faster than the Underground and way faster than the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research ... ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in ... with phone calls and text messages and FaceTime, I would be able to stay

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... you to seek shade and be with others. But if you want someone to help ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  figured out quickly; others were difficult and painful to learn. I ... these lessons can be guideposts that allow you to learn, enjoy yourself ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be professors. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  also my friend and hallmate. We dance to "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit ... perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam ... man, later that night. We rush too quickly from Jesus' death to Jesus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... voice to match his. "aight bet bet, thatll be $9.50" In reaching over to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  want to get there by [annotation note="i like to be a little on the ... going to be regularly commuting. You can purchase them by the month, or ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... novel about my last trip to Ethiopia, it would still be an incoherent ... becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... being able to find any common ground. But this semester I switched majors

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014