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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... just wanted to let you know that you can have a lot of fun and still get

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... with a full-blown Tron Guy. Photo Opp! Unfortunately after registration I had to go take a math test. I should take this opportunity to say

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... fascinating! here is a great article, if you wanted to learn more']spread around

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more, worse. I suffer from a (chronic) condition known as “need-to ... every time you join a club or an organization -Feeling the need to ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  need to find a better balance, something that I thought I had learned to ... truly be kind, to be intentionally kind and a good friend? How does one go ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• 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…

  

  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 ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

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

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

  

  think you’re supposed to. A PhD, in particular, does not always lead to a ... Ds, too—you don’t need an MIT undergrad to end up at a place like MIT for ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  . Sometimes you just need to have an idea, a plan, and a timeline. I completed ... work was the easier portion. I needed to learn to build alignment to a ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the ... the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... 308. The Cheney Room is a lovely space, and if you want to learn about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... promise. It means. That if I need help, I go on Piazza (Q&A class forum

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... “there are so many ways to be a spider”.[annotation note="adam told me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012