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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  cross-pollination. You need diversity - broadly defined - for college to ... , and to become aware of problems which exist in the world which need ... backgrounds, then you need college. Or at least something so similar to college

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  how to cry. MIT has changed me, yes. But not maybe as much as you ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... need to function and study. But despite all this, I won’t ever see the ... another semester to finish. I know I need to reach out to my s³ dean and the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below ... crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... will burn out. It's scary to acknowledge that it's a decision because it

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  going to get. "What? No. No, you need to keep the computer science. What ... let that go when I went to college, so I knew that I needed to minor in ... that. Of course, there's so much more to business that I don't know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  ) Sometimes you need to impulsively hit that “Send” button.. There were many ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.] ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... things I never used to let myself have time for. It was very much ... scrambling to get money transferred from my savings account to checking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which ... , because the beds aren't fantastic, and you really need to make the most of ... 't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... , what does this entry have to do with froyo? Nothing really. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 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.

  

  physics and a HASS class). Once you start skipping one class it's hard to ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven ... is about learning to take care of yourself. Well, as much as I hate to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the energy to go back to Baker and fell asleep in the office ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ... stop me? I didn't think so. I didn't know much, but I knew that I needed ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between ... we need to become the person who we’re supposed to be, that we have ... a utilitarian really mattered that much to me. It’s easier said than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  need to do to not feel anxious. I know that there’s no perceivable threat ... the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is ... the answer I need to these frightening questions, I can’t help but to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  needs to fix. Anyway, wait for it to buffer about halfway and then either ... :00 mark. Live from President Obama's Clean Energy Address at MIT brought to ... come once. So, as I said, Obama was going to walk right in front of me

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... become fences to step over, would the lights feel pleasantly warm or burn ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014