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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren't ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... envisioned myself as a corporate cog, devoid of fantastical hopes, and didn’t

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t ... . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool ... winter without a winter coat. I’m doing better at this than I expected - a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement It wasn’t until CPW that MIT became a real place (think to yourself

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  in a semester, though I probably shouldn't. It turns out that I'm still ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... ; Aristotle really doesn't put forward a decision procedure."]the question of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , the production of which apparently didn’t go well. We discussed a novel ... of us. It turns out that David and Jason haven’t seen each other in a ... intense, yet I didn’t want my studies to become a pushover. And everything I

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

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

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... Muti, a village that lost its water supply--doesn’t that also sound like ... school--T-Shirts, pens--and raised enough money to build a well. Then they

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  . I don’t think I’ve necessarily gotten worse, but I have felt a lot of ... ="108145" /] I feel like I didn’t grow that much as a graphic designer this year ... assemble into a vlog. I won’t link it here since it’ll be in our joint blog

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  onto a meal plan they don't want and also had to pay significantly more ... surrounding BC, there wasn't a good deal of traffic in the channel. Even so ... seemed like a natural step to us since, for one, it doesn't make sense for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have ... . I was scheduled to work that morning. I’m pretty sure I did a horrible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the rest of your time here. So relax a bit. Don't overconstrain yourself ... a class to get a taste of a certain major, but I'm not sure if I'm ... MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... "] west campus is not included because i'm gonna be real, i think i only

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

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  pull a B W00T!!!! Mindblowingly generous friends who helped financially ... she wasn't able to graduate, she most definitely is a part of mine. tl ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... next time. I did this a lot last semester. It didn't work out. So next ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  doesn't have maintenance staff. You get to feel a part of a different ... MIT student. Sure, I still am a student, but I'm also a resident of ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with ... already learned multivariable calc (even if they won't use it) is a little ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn't ... -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for ... year, and my new plans are sketching how I'm going to build a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... doesn't really like it when students break the law. How to become a hacker ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i'm ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015