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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not even sure why I took organic chemistry, since I was interested in math

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

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

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... , how subject evaluations should work in the pandemic, the mission of the ... , including through UROPs, clubs, and just by being around new people. How can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ’t even know how I was doing in the class beforehand. I emailed my TA from ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... bed like I was a character in a movie. I watched the original music

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others. However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016