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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  do to cope with it. Cry, scream, eat your feelings. But only for a ... a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... small blurbs. I grab a donut for breakfast. I headed to Du ... sick. Adding -ej- makes it to a place, malsanulejo, a place for sick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  listening to someone lay out a plan for the next week, and the overhead ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... [/caption] There is a small response due Wednesday for this class that involves

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... juggle except for every time you lean over to pick a ball up two more fall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... enclosing me, the world vanishing, for that moment of intimacy to take over, a ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  media field for 4 years. A PhD was relevant and helpful to those specific ... advice is that if you KNOW you want to go back for a technical PhD, spend ... Ds, too—you don’t need an MIT undergrad to end up at a place like MIT for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... with pertinent information! K: Nat's going to be a TA for this. More of ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... continuously sick for three months due to applications-related anxiety, and I ... for the RA round, I’d like to share a bit about my mindset and what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when ... cold shower Listening to music/painting/art Go for a walk or run ... to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  waitlists. And so that path is now open for me to walk down — a path that, in ... portfolios to grow. For me, working here feels like a place to spend a few ... summers and IAPs to try out a wide variety of possible career paths for me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... we provide a comfortable space for people to engage with us and with ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  , maybe a dorm is a good place to stay for your time here. Many people stay ... to MIT for a meeting at 3PM, I'd put in the building's address, say I ... due to construction, or seasonal schedules, or for anything else. You

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  really want a UROP, sometimes you have to fight for it. Stalk for it, even ... two post docs were looking for a UROP. I have never responded to an e ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... anyone else has had a chance to speak. In my emails asking for letters, I ... cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020