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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... overall experience much more enjoyable. Second, it is a good way to start ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• 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…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... there is this life, the life without my sister. My sister died in a car ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

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

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... thermodynamics in a single night. Of course, no one is actually like that. In ... how well their product works. In fact, one of my classes is, in fact

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part ... within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  spontaneous but fun. Throwing a good party is really exhilarating and in general ... turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  , and sadness is simply amazing and worth living for. I am valued in this ... experienced. Some of them have confined themselves in their rooms or a dorm ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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 ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... exorbitant bills. This is not acceptable in America, which claims to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... success of a semester is not measured in grades alone. Some people might say ... throw in a couple of pictures. Since that is my job. These are some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... is the ultimate end of living, if not virtuous activity? Or, in a more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... [annotation note='a process that is still ongoing, and won’t be over until april

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... can put as much of anything as you want. Just like the components in a ... they cool, make your sauce. Noted in the formula above, sauce is a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... ’m soaking in being a senior at MIT and living at home.  What Is Your Favorite

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

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

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010