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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to ... people who stuck to what they wanted, like the kids who wanted to be ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... . But that’s not an excuse to forget the dreams, passions, goals and ... teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  being foolish. Noone from my entire county goes to MIT, especially not ... you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  the fall semester, only to be unearthed again over [annotation note ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not ... why I’ve been too restless to get enough sleep, or the shaky feelings

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... , reminding me constantly of the time then and who I used to be. I wanted to get ... . The very real possibility of failing the class and having to retake it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  it means to be gay. I changed my Twitter handle to have a rainbow on it, but that’s not what it means to be gay. I share gay memes and make jokes ... contrast to the people around me. It makes me feel like if I’m not gay enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... , establishing social groups and networking during your first year will be vital to ... interest will often be far more rewarding than trying to juggle a double in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the ... page. We did not expect there to be such big beef over pineapple on pizza

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  but failed to meet the expectations of my supervisor. I felt guilty ... living next to you is doing. The world needs us. That’s why we are all at ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able ... exam, your interest in the material may vanish, and your mind will be so ... ’ll be able to make it through the semester, let alone ever measure up to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  application is (probably) not the place to get too experimental, or to be ... said that why yes, that would be great. So my friend asked the natural ... the extra marginal decisions that came with being poor, like needing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... movies I watched, being bored constantly, traveling to the Dominican ... ="Total lie, don't know why I thought this would be the case. I've already taken

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  calculus -- and why? Not because I had grown to understand that being smart was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates ... gotta make, my ego will be bruised but I do not think it will shatter. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  remain on the same campus or even in the same city, there will always be ... 't be able to resist creeping on the blogs to see what everybody is up to ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know ... , that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to ... the rest of the world before I could choose who I wanted to intensely be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . Sometimes, we will be too far to grab the hands of those who were bashed by ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008