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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and ... to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember ... learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... enough. The absolute best part of making your own furniture is that you get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  class is wild. It's really your first introduction to the beauty of ... and how they are best teaching it. Not to mention, the content is very ... ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . The one I went to is Discover Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ... everything that’s happening at MIT feels the same way. Each hour passes by so ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and ... ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  to. But sometimes, there is no way forward but to try, to take the risk ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

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

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

  

  only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... blossoms. The tablecloth is green, a bright spring green. People start to ... year – the one that went to work for Porsche – is returning from his

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

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

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  is difficult to understand the red apple that others keep talking about ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems ... anywhere else. I started to treat people the same way I treat MIT students

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here ... stake by trying to make ends meet, all the habits I currently do have, and ... the above so that I could to say to myself: “I did my best, I did

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ’t necessarily think that just by seeing “INFP” or “Virgo”. So maybe the best way to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  I will take all the help I can get. it's a ~journey~ best trekked with ... remedy is to slowly chew on carbs, typically rice (because it absorbs the ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Campus is going to get renovated soon, and gods know how the floor plan ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... past,[/annotation] email is an unreasonably effective way to contact

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022