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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  return on your investment. That's great. But money can't just buy integrity. Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... layer - that can tell you which roads are safe, which roads are unsafe ... can be deceptive. For example, Massachusetts Avenue, which bisects the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... simple path from A to B, from course 5 to course 9, but I don't think I can ... only one who can really "specify" answer choice e) is the person making

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  the future, all of which can hurt me. In this distorted vision, the future is this place where we have zero control over what can happen to us ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  kitchen. The data are squirmy, like most data: We can’t know what ... grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... the information we collected from my inbox, we can use Bayes’ Theorem to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode ... can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... three tines. As you can see above, my fork's lacking in general forkiness

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... an engineering firm, or wherever else I can apply to with my sanity ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... for everyone, but in the end you can't imagine yourself anywhere else ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... – it’s slooooooow going when stitching. The market can bear about $2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... only a twenty minute walk), and my friends and I can be more spontaneous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... in high school as a lot of other students, ideas and mindsets can be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... like you sufficiently understand enzyme-DNA dynamics, you can move onto exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  is; firsthand information from students can change minds.) “Well, I ... , but it’s not always simple. Sure, sometimes you can come back with a witty retort and a raised middle finger. Sometimes you can’t. I had to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... lungs, I can run, and I can breathe. As David Foster Wallace says, this is ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... Jurassic Park was a work of fiction, and just like you can't reanimate a velociraptor from its fossil, you can't understand the life of an applicant from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011