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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... that the tools we needed in order to pull off the dream version of the ... of what to do next has been having faith in the fact that God is in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... they expected, so try to be open as much as you can. Gemini Many in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... much of what happens in life is outside of our control. You schedule ... opportunities, and to seek out serendipity in as much as you can. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in ... thinking about what I learned in college... All I Ever Really Needed to ... , and I wish we all (myself included) didn't need death to put things in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... living next to you is doing. The world needs us. That’s why we are all at ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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

  

  classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but ... experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• 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 ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... in our major (since CMS is so much smaller than course 6), and also

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell the story, I need you to go watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  unexpected four-figure bill shrouded in paperwork that needed to be paid ASAP ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... drugs to treat cancer. Almost everything created there is super exciting

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  're partners now! Let me know if you need to know people in Addis Ababa!", the ... 'll need a separate blog post to describe it. Drop of Water told us that in ... project, hand it off to someone else--but actually, I’m very much still in

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

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot—in ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . But, unfortunately, the position is not year-round—I needed to find ... leaving any time soon: my five-year plan is to stay in Cambridge with my ... frosh to do is find something they actually enjoy and are interested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014