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

  

  to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking ... . 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

  • 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 / 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 ... days. it took a lot of mental energy to write something every week, but ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  feel like everything else is more important. Your body needs energy to ... . You need to be your own motivator and create your own measurements of ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  were given a budget of $100 to order parts needed for our project. The ... Twitter, I created a countdown setup that led to a POST request that posted ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  exhilaration of that success would give me the energy to keep going. A hallmate ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• 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 ... audience in the dark, hiding the labor and work that goes into it to create a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  coursework for the paper and Novemburn), I haven’t had the energy to do much ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... their wings and putting in a copious amount of time and energy into

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• 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 ... shortcuts. There’s basically a formula to the essay. Create a realistic

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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  more confidence in my ability to create more interesting solutions to a ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of their requirements done. I thought that most people would want to take a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  study, thanks to barely needing to lift a finger in high school. It can be ... yourself a party trick. Understand what you need to make you mentally happy ... . Women should get access to the Cheney Room. You will need a nap at some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  alum Vanessa Feliberti '91, who wanted to create a program that focused ... I declared it out of spite to prove a point, to prove that I'm smart ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• 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 / 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008