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

  

  of what to do next has been having faith in the fact that God is in ... far to myself. In the last episode of This Is Us, one of the characters ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  is what makes me feel connected to myself, others, and the world in a ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... to soak in the weather, thread bits of yarn through warp and weft, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... !!! this is one of the most awesome perks about our student ID - I've been ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures ... . Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  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 ... difference. 9:38pm: The article on women faculty, coming in at 1,600 words, is

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

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  works! I hope in the future, once our alarm clock is finished, to ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... . Yet Caroline is now contemplating switching to Course 14, Michelle is in ... , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to ... wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... excitement and protectiveness over the frosh. There is much to learn and plenty

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... missed dearly in Cambridge is the ability to do UROP/research during the ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  react to rejection is one of the most important life skills you can learn ... to East Campus and Simmons for having the top two most responses, 18 ... opportunity is really a blessing in disguise. The hard thing is, the blessing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... -time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... like "The best sorority is..." or "You have to take this.." or "Actually the best dorm is..." when in reality there really is no best or worst

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... . Muti also has a water problem. All the water in Muti is delivered through ... only clean water source that remains is the one next to the secondary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015