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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be ... wrong, and I had to be OK with that. So, I kept it simple. I would have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  ’ll be a postdoc at UC Berkeley, supported by a Miller Research Fellowship ... without pomp and circumstance. You might be thinking “yikes, you spent five ... elevation that the room had to be oxygenated; I asked X-ray telescopes in low

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark ... wall of books, a sweeping view of MIT’s main courtyard could be seen from ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  studying amateur Astronomy. I always wanted to come to MIT and be an ... would be on a given day in the year, but was more interested in coding the ... be nice to everyone, even to some particularly cruel professors, never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... think, slowly, but it wasn't ever enough. Being sick was a good break ... I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... might be anymore. I’ll start somewhere and keep talking, how’s that

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  --sometimes just because there wasn’t time to write about them. I think being happy or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full ... not true) and I just don’t even really remember what it feels like to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a ... . Mandana Sassanfar organized it all. Thanks, Mandana!) To be honest, I don ... , they also might have happened without MIT. Some of it could be just

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ago and you remember where you were then, it feels like it __must__ be ... in Boston's Hubway, should be able to rent helmets with bikes if they ... with way more than I thought I'd be able to. Several times I drew lines

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... has passed. This narrative isn't likely to be particularly linear. But ... convinced that you don't find MIT; rather, MIT finds you. This may not be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , internet policy, legal stuff, technology, society, OKAY LET'S BE REAL I'M NOT ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... internet, technology and the world than I ever was before. Now, you might be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... ’s race should be as automatic as providing one’s name. As Chris Peterson

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... “you’ll be great wherever you go” are well-intentioned, but therefore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, Mc

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... blogs didn't exist, I would probably not be here. I graduated from High ... requirements would be some sort of writing portfolio - and that it helps to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... and that you choose it for reasons you believe in. You’ll be here for ... very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification ... related fears of the water, of too much work, of being overwhelmed. I came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -related weight gain; it's like "Hey, it might be freezing outside, but they ... . 4) Do not be afraid to go forward - in solving integrals. . This one ... skill of cleverly manipulating ...integrands - a.k.a. functions to be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009