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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh*t together learn to become highly-responsible, functioning, independent

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• 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…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• 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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  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 ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

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

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own. (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per ... because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019