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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My ... expectations, and connected me with the resources I would ultimately need to meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  , can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much ... really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... neon visitor sticker, as well as the knowledge that I no longer need to ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , because I thought I had to. I thought I needed a pair of sperrys if anyone was ever going to respect me. I thought that I needed to respond to ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  need to remember that it's okay to need help navigating sometimes. I ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  't, and you always need to have more buffer. Always. Hence why I'm making ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  probably need to keep looking. Try new things. Keep investigating and ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  :30 Nerdy Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will ... 's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010