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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  reading this article the other day about how we can be discriminatory in our ... see them as frequently as I can. Whenever I am in their respective ... time to check in with myself and do a vibe check on how I’m doing. This

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  squeezing my stomach in their fist? Why can't I get out of bed in the morning ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of ... over it for not knowing how to utilize these tools from the start. I can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... I hid behind my music stand. Three years later, I was in high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what guy someone is dating, how much work someone has. I think that's what I ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• 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 ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in, hopelessly confused, and I can (sometimes) instantly recognize their problem

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... about how you've stood tall in the face of racism, homophobia, poverty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... undergrad. Similar to when I left my family in Denver, I didn't realize how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  application in, and how I felt about each activity. For example, I was musical ... was going, how I was playing in the band for the school play, and how I ... seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018