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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... was tragic to read, and personally fascinating to me; I’ve spent a lot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

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

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ambition fit. I suppose this also explains why I feel a strange need to ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  --did I eat or sleep, do I need a break, or maybe a walk? Do I need to talk ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  'll need a separate blog post to describe it. Drop of Water told us that in order to help us implement a well, they needed a contact at a local ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs ... as a computer science major.  I'll add another disclaimer here to say ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

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

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

  

  it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class ... a short break. Much needed sometimes."]7 minutes[/annotation] btwn now ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  moment touched her so much that it solidified her decision to become a ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020