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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... shape wide-reaching policy and to advocate for undergraduates was a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  for her perspective. Nikayah learned that MIT used to have a history of ... information she was given prior to signing up for recruitment, she found that ... values in their search for the D9 organization they wanted to join. Nikayah

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on ... test, and I decided to stay for the night and hang out. The Hunt kickoff ... entire spice rack" in. Lillian baked cookies, enough for each of us to have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... . I chose to make high school quite difficult for myself. I took on more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted, and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... is necessary for self-sustainability) to be kind to myself Xiaolu, my ... , selectively forgetting what it was like to struggle for long days and nights at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat ... path for premeds here. If you choose to not follow that path, then you ... to seek out the thing that interests you. Also, be prepared for that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... personalities. How to customize my practice for each trainee requires a lot of ... for his drink too. Our drinks came out at the same time and he went to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not ... couldn’t help but to admit to people that I felt scared for no solid reason

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022