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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... going wrong—I try my best to sit down, contemplate, and then write until I have arrived upon the actions I need to take to put my life back together

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes, I'll share them here. I would like my sophomore year to be less rough

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to ... use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  blog entry has to be about CPW, so I'm going to treat you to another story. I had very little physics experience when I came to MIT. I ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you will divulge your greatest disappointments and accomplishments to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after that, because i wanted other people to experience the joys that i did. i

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

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... . in days like these the body feels like an inconvenience. i have to tend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle ... right now."]But I couldn't bring myself to write that post today ... . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be ... ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  So dear readers, I have finally made it to MIT. I���m writing this from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon be posting it to my blog thanks to my wireless Internet connection. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular 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 ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it. similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  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 ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... the one that was assigned to you at birth.) So we know highschool can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her Blackberry to check my decision, but just as the pivotal moment arrived, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer ... through Hell already; you went to MIT!" So I was going to write an entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  Waaaaaaaah! You've moved on to '13 already!? I don't feel loved ... , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008