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

  

  call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... decisions you have had to make? What helped you make it? Bryan: I think the ... experiment just didn't exist, and we didn't really have the bandwidth to invest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I ... to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find ... House prior to its 2017 depopulation." Alright, sorry about the delay

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fail, so scramble to visit the nearest Bank of America to have it done in ... will and the administration will have no mercy if you miss a deadline. It ... ;t be returning back to Boston until the beginning of fall semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super ... basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... familiar, it's because the call letters are those of TBS, the TV station

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  call it that) works the same way. I begin each academic year anticipating ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United ... Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the ... somehow want to return to it as soon as you are finished as though you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  rolled my suitcase out of Next House, not to return until the fall. It was ... returned to Next, running out the dregs of our time together. Eventually, it ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... you aren’t the president. It could be the opposite – if you stretch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  gift of puzzles, I think about what it means to contribute to the ... graduated in 1983, the task of writing the next Hunt was passed to its winner ... 1997 Hunt was the first one with a [annotation note='It could be called a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . Since the class is called Solving Complex Problems, it was interesting to ... to the real world, etc. I used Content: Insightful if the reason ... experience with product design and the different methods/ways to go about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  story, circumstances, and so forth; even if they were to replicate all the ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... its whole. And to the extent that people think tools like Admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  remember quite what it feels like to be in the place of the returners ... current batch of returning students (who I’ll call “the returners” from here ... returners are stable and supported even if they’re not yet 100% readjusted to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes and if I'm ultimately smart enough to take the classes I want in the ... the pandemic, meaning it was hard to gauge what would've happened if ... "]prodigality[/annotation] and stinginess. Aristotle acknowledges that it is hard to hit on the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  developed increased bodily elasticity that allows it to dip in the middle ... bursts open due to its contents exceeding the capacity of its central pit ... the bottom of the Pocket's pit. This allows the Pocket to release its

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  usually no.) This is not the story you were expecting to hear, was it? I ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... in a minute. Good news- we've made it to the Turning Point of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  while, even if it sounds scary. You'll have a new story to tell, or maybe ... a reason. 30) It's okay if college isn't the best four years of your life, and don't feel like you're failing if it's not. Keep working

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have taken the Muggle guards this early if we had to, but it would ... , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... solo trips, it was a fantastic way to decompress. Hopping all around the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . On the bright side, though, those obligations can also contract to fit ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010