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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the energy to go back to Baker and fell asleep in the office ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ... stop me? I didn't think so. I didn't know much, but I knew that I needed ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  need to do to not feel anxious. I know that there’s no perceivable threat ... the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is ... the answer I need to these frightening questions, I can’t help but to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between ... we need to become the person who we’re supposed to be, that we have ... a utilitarian really mattered that much to me. It’s easier said than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  needs to fix. Anyway, wait for it to buffer about halfway and then either ... :00 mark. Live from President Obama's Clean Energy Address at MIT brought to ... come once. So, as I said, Obama was going to walk right in front of me

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... become fences to step over, would the lights feel pleasantly warm or burn ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , you need to let go of seven others. What? But I have so many who... But ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... experiences applying to jobs, and does not necessarily reflect every MIT student ... , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying to cure cancer / creating the renewable energy systems of the future

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  as expression. It's no surprise then to see this creativity transfer to ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it ... happened all at once in the 16.07 classroom. We choose to go to the moon ... serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to finish. (Example: I once made a 48-hour schedule of things I had to ... reaction to his perspective and at the idea that I was once just as excited ... wrong, I knew I didn’t need to. A different perspective leads to different

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  didn't like it. I eventually transferred to yet another school. But I don ... he will be; worse, once he is different, he won't ever be able to ... of change or need some time to stabilize. It's interesting, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible ... respective majors. It is very much true, although the difficulty and pain does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... needed to figure out electronics — we didn't want to use breadboards and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023