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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... because I was able to appreciate what I have in my life in a way that I ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  short). ESP is a student "club" at MIT that seeks to provide educational ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... properly varies quite a lot from adviser to adviser). In addition, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  at any time and solve a few puzzles, or stay as long as it takes to get ... - 9:00 PM SIMFEST!: Henna Tattoos Your first day of college? Get a tattoo! A temporary one of course – but your folks don't have to know that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  just throw in all of your loose leaves into a folder right? That ... everything can be organized and clipped away in a binder. Everything gets ... organization. Find your binder rings that hold things in place and get organized

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. I spent a few hours ... " align="alignnone" width="981"] a work in progress - clem (attempts) to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... that you need to come in a rocket scientist, not at all. But you will ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  not a test to be used in any sort of professional evaluation of others ... lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things ... pages a week when life and problem sets got in the way, and alternately

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... the second day in a row. he was my teammate. i sat next to him three ... together, and get to know each other (more than a bit). it’s easier than you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  've been to a lot of the places shown in the video, so it just makes me ... encourage you all to watch a couple races of your own. I'll even admit that I ... do if you saw a group of teens crushing up peanuts to put in their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

   & Solo Roadtrip to one of the hottest places in the world Kyle: Here’s a ... -sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... friends and family loved  getting to see what I was up to, so I just

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT ... Indiana. But these are just a few so be sure to check the listing on your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be ... perfectionist in me wants to abandon it all. Why write about something that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... favorite character in the novel. Still, I don't get what's up with all these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... passage of time I’ve had a better opportunity to get to know them. This year however I’ve reached the maximum time that I will have to ever get to know a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... Notes Form, which will be posted in mid-January to your application portal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022