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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... that I can recall, I've received something that flies. I learned to fly r

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  final presentations and write-ups to the PI that explain the data taken ... to use it. the procedure for running Artemis is fairly automated so I will be heading over to IAC-80 (80cm telescope) at some point and then

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... have to tweak the code, tweak the bot, line the bot back up, and try ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  of Burton Conner. REX, which was from August 29 to September 1st, is the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... about our history and traditions is crucial to sustaining the culture we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter, president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  UROP" to anyone who asked about summer plans, when truthfully I had no idea what to do. Then some time during March or April, I heard two ... and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008