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  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me—it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  anything, all nighters are worth it for this reward. In fact, pressure can be exhilarating. It pushes one to the limits of intellectual capacities ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  thus the five exams and psets followed quickly after - but it was totally ... Kind Rewind. "[At MIT,] you can try something, and even if it don’t work ... screening. "And I really like that." So it takes four hours to get from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I ... it with some help or maybe even independently. At your disposal, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a ... . Her research is in the use of computational methods for the acceleration ... is the second year that MIT has observed it as Indigenous Peoples' Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was ... remove it until we'd had a chance to talk about it, and he graciously agreed to do so. The problem with the post was that it was undoubtedly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  visiting a city. New York has something very pretty to it and I'd like to go ... it was very hectic, but I did a stop in Cambridge, UK to meet a friend ... 't, and it was interesting to be there. It seems on average a bit more

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of ... until it suddenly felt too much to simply be contained. It just had to be written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it ... holistic admissions authentically. We can’t write about what it ... creative autonomy to independently pursue whatever they think is interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... Early Action, but I can still read it if I know which file to open. :-) If ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually ... this thing before? It's called the NFPA 704. It's used to indicate ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  used to be fun to care about these things. it felt like i was making a ... and donate? it used to be fun to care. but now everything i do feels ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The ... the process. It really was a great opportunity for my family to ... ." That kind of intense emotional connection can make it especially

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my ... many questions that come with it. So, without further ado, I present to ... worth it? Should I even attempt to double major? Should I make space to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... had enough time to learn it on my own. I still haven't gotten around to ... the (very few) songs I used to know. RIP. DO THINGS IN BOSTON Escape

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  our experiences at MIT. It was amazing to chat with the students about ... process (it’s hard to do!) and how to showcase strengths such as resilience ... used what they learned over the past two days to navigate campus more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and ... recommended for this class, and since I was very used to Solidworks and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008