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  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
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  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
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  . She also gained some insight on how these organizations work in Boston ... together can easily meet up. In order to be more accommodating, the chapter ... sisters that came before them. Kenneth admires how ceremonies can tie

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How ... intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... because of, or in spite of, MIT)? How will MIT change? I guess we’ll see

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... [/annotation], a design class I took in the spring about translated typography

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the ... crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015