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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... . And then three of my very best friends in the world decided to leave MIT. (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me very carefully: THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN THE SAT. And thank God. 7 ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  .) 9:53 AM: Back to pset. mCPBA is the most commonly used peroxyacid to ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is ... . 9:07 PM: Javi pulls everyone in the hall into his room to watch his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... passed away in the line of duty. A friend of mine, who is also a friend of ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... to the awesomeness). I was thrilled, and everybody in my lab is totally ... me to coach the squad, at least nominally. Mostly I think I just tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... grew up in the town next to the other, they're in the same lab group and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  education the most, and will bring the most benefit to the MIT community ... and Informed) Risk-taking: Going to MIT is risky in itself, considering ... , outstanding intellectual aptitude, a desire to use your knowledge in the world

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

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

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  problems if you decide to work in a lab. Maybe the most important thing you ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... math jokes: here 10. There’s always too much to do: the work hard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... elusive. I work in a lab in the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the ... -necrotic compounds that are widely used in drugs today. The hope is that studying these

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... note="while academics in the natural sciences tend to submit papers to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out ... deadline, take the whole summer to figure out your courseload, then waltz in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... . Failure is inherent in risk, and risk is necessary for success. Applying to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012