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

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... . PhD in hand, I thought I would drop in (hello!) and share some thoughts ... terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , and often I find myself wondering how things would be if I had stepped ... , I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials ... work I was doing. This might have just been how things work at this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... call this modesty, but I would call this a warped sense of reality. The ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  advice I would give to myself as an 18-year-old, other than stop eating ... of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  - because I'm not physically at the conference, I would sometimes tend towards ... "]haven't been cited yet,[/annotation] so I have no idea how the math around ... factors. I'm still learning how to write up data analyses and say coherent

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever ... school was safer, even though I felt I really wanted to go into public

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... Novemburn would fall on the same week as my conference deadline, I almost ... however, I hit the sleep equivalent of a thermocline once I realized how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  letter,[/annotation] which makes me question how badly I would’ve done if I ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and ... of that would have happened had I not felt like trying something out ... this principle from my entire life might actually be how I met that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... would react in each of the three outcomes, and I kept comparing myself to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... pathogens. (If I were cooler, it would be good to actually replace the broken ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... together. I helped build a robot. The competition's today, and we'll see how ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  people, and how we go about implementing these technologies. I personally ... my non-technical work experience would’ve disadvantaged me had I not ... honestly don’t really know how much these mattered, but I think it’s not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  with friends, taking advantage of suddenly-open afternoons. i would see people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... . Even so, my audience, on this blog, is far larger than I would have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  something about how I didn’t think so, no, and I personally wasn’t an engineering major, actually. I didn’t ask him how he defined “merit.” I didn ... how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... 18[/caption] If I could write a book on Freshman Fall, it would ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how ... briefly freaked out about the possibility that i would have decided to ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry, painting ... , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004