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• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect ... offering me so much opportunity. How dare I feel like this is all too much? I ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New ... . . . well . . . it seemed annoying, and I wasn’t really sure how much the ... . . . while, yes, I can still get it back (New Zealand allows you to file tax

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... serenaded a girl in the class. Now I realize my view may be a little biased ... people like him at MIT. I consider myself very lucky to be in the company

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... ’t slack off but can get away with occasionally skipping class, I’m learning ... , scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I ... family. Everyone brings something unique and amazing to the team and I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a little easier than step one, because if you didn't learn how to drive in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... the sodium-lit image appear in the bath of developer, I pretty much left ... Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , I still watched them occasionally. So you can probably imagine how ... : strategizing how more teachers can use PBS LearningMedia in more engaging ways ... My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  sometimes I can’t help but think about how much simpler life would’ve been if ... I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... or less. I can't put into words how much this (gestures vaguely) is ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  , I’m scrutinizing every other phrase in my SoP and wondering how my ... have written better than I can about how proud you should be of ... community back in high school, and how I hope to extend that love to the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  saw myself improve over the semester in how I was understanding, on the ... once because of how hard a time I had in it. I took two semesters of ... blog about how a lack of direction can be a sense of solace in a way, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... can be stored in most home garages and has folding wings that enable it to operate both on the ground and in the air. It can carry two people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain ... .02 curriculum. I mean, isn't that why the class numbers end in the same 3 digits

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... ="aligncenter" width="346"] I was late for class that day 🙁[/caption] After 12 years in the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... world today, or I was blind and now suddenly I can see, and everything was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008