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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I’m

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... heroes of any story I'm in"]My mom helped,[/annotation]the blankets helped

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  your opportunities, wherever you are. I’m not a grad admissions expert ... side of an incoming bioengineering PhD student. (I’m not the only one who ... every single email that said, “I’m reaching out because I’m interested in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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…

  

  when I'm still constructing my immediate future -- which has, at the ... reaction. I'm quintessentially neither any set of failures nor any set of successes, and I'm hardly any more or less deserving of praise or respect even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  I've picked out the five clubs and three varsity sports I'm going to ... a class to get a taste of a certain major, but I'm not sure if I'm

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I'm ... . I'm talking about serious life lessons. Not all of them translate well ... . Personally speaking, maybe it's because I'm used to getting stuff immediately

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  confuses me because I'm actually Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). After ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... .260 Professor James head-on because I'm busy scrutinizing the 5.60 pset ... she'll be right down to class. (I think perhaps she thinks I'm a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to ... . I’m nearly twenty-one now, yet I find myself craving the same things I ... loopholes, no matter how beautiful the numbers were. I’m nearly twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  ."]Acceptance:[/annotation] It doesn't really matter WHY. This is reality now. Okay.   I'm ... me if I'm ranked 2nd in my class at the number 3 school in the country ... reads applications and stuff) covers it beautifully here. Of course, I'm

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  with me past midnight trying (and failing) to build a snowman. I’m sorry ... talk openly about. I’m not even sure it’s something that’s talked about ... recommend it. Thanks, Michelle Obama, for releasing this the same semester I’m

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I’m

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... , how i'm glad it's done, but, god, how i wish i had more time. when i was ... scariest. statements i wrote down, which i think i stand behind, but i'm not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... Harvard, I’m learning to approach philosophy texts with high rigor and ... “double agent” is energizing. I’m the older, “more powerful” outsider. I get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i'm

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• 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…

  

  themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in ... actually the very first blogger who had to apply for the position, and I'm ... every aspect of my life, MIT related or not, and it's a tradition that I'm

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

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled ... or Cambridge area you should know it's not because I'm just that vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  actually had responsibility for, and I'm not sure what happened, but somehow ... , you'd know I'm interested in Esperanto, which isn't the only constructed ... about studying abroad, and really, I’m just incredibly lucky, to I'll be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Pros: Separation between school and the rest of my life. Even though I'm ... the bubble". I can balance my life far better when I'm not constantly ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019