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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  ": things I want to hold on to and feel interested in, but would not ... order to make sure I would commit to the humanities in some way. > 2A ... fucking clue. I think I really didn't like how much physics was in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  graduated I really thought nothing would change and we’d always be in touch ... time to check in with myself and do a vibe check on how I’m doing. This ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... to know that I would see them again in the fall. I felt happy that ... : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how much I would've liked this, I would've joined earlier, or, if I knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... , crayon pictures of whatever scene i was imagining in my mind. i would “sell

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . 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 ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  myself. Then I would go home to my apartment in Watertown and read, and ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie ... would be like, how to solve hard problems, and how to care for myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles, especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... rare that the piece felt too valuable to publish. I would’ve kept the ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... their own take and I enjoyed all of them. I love my Thai culture and how

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  -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 ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023