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  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... week! And training for a marathon! What was I, Superdude? Seriously, the ... happened next but somehow the sun is rising and you're looking at the entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... . 21W.013, which set up the way I wrote and approached essays for the ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... select them, but rather that because of the things for which we select they ... valedictorian isn't the reason for the decision; it's the result of factors which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  saw regularly for the rest of the semester, and into IAP. Externally ... ’t tell anyone about it. I had looked at the mental health website, but ... homework again and study for exams or work on projects. Some of the best

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he ... loss for words. You might be incredulous at the fact that I hadn't been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me ... decisions came out absorbed in the application process for other schools, religiously editing essays and looking up acceptance statistics. In the RA round

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things ... consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... types of assignments they did or what the final projects looked like. You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  empathy. Or alternatively, the empathy we feel for some people can be more ... ally looks and how empathy factor in. What happened in the last dream you ... abandon projects; we just shelve them for a later date. Afeefah: One of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  'd known that the deadline for certain summer internships, and programs like ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... grading first-years on "Pass/No Record," for which I am very grateful. The ... the technological one. People are looking at the things their doing in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were ... "[/annotation].  Last spring, I thought I ran the pacer test for the last time. But, since

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019