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

  

  explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a ... . 9) Be yourself as much as you can. It's exhausting to try and maintain ... your own needs and emotions before jumping into anything. Listen to your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  much of the population from campus, his reaction to this was, once again ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  'll never run again, there's no need to think about maintenance. But if you want to start an event that'll run every year, you need to think about ... a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... feeling to have. I had no idea how much room my shame was taking up until I ... . Fortunately, you only have to ask once in your life.) Thank you, whoever you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... experiences applying to jobs, and does not necessarily reflect every MIT student ... , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  applicants from Wisconsin! When the reality would be much closer to: we took ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  shown up yet. To kill time, I walked across the dam once again and ... I need to return home, to my new home. So many times I have looked at ... . Every time I need to cross from this point, I find myself staring at the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... you need. When you don’t pick up and move, it’s difficult to start from ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• 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 ... need to take two ci-hs to graduate."][/annotation] I wrote an ... does not require resting. Cut across the grain into thick slices to

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

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  keep track of what needs to be done. And I know it sounds, I don't know ... the things that needed to happen, when they needed to happen, who we ... we needed to do. Little by little, it felt like HSSP was coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... you need to."  That's all common sense, but it was surprising how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... , and the crosswords helped -- but ultimately what I needed was to just ... days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... hope you enjoy reading mine. March 2020 What does it take to get to know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  't think I changed or grew much in that year, compared to my years at MIT ... will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... easy way to find out if they need any paid help for set ... Studies In the middle of so much research, some human subjects are needed

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to ... see the Sistine Chapel and Mona Lisa once I got here. Luckily, going to ... college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021