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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• 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 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... hardest to get MIT Decision Day 2010 to come faster, I couldn't. Heck, it ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... - so I'm going to leave her with you. Anna, get Josh's opinion, then you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of ... bowling pins. I kneel down to ask about the bowling pins; instead of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  what I want to do with my life, how will I go about achieving it? Will I ... requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  never had to work that hard. I was getting results I was happy with, and ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... 's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• 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…

  

  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 ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  read assembly code. I got better at building things. I learned how to ... AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get ... bored, and if I did get bored, I'd have space and skills enough to find

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to convince myself that what they were saying was true. I tried to forget how

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... . However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• 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 ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  'll excuse me, I have to get back to reading! :) ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise ... whose mom was murdered last summer. I learn how to be patient, how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  official documents, I could’ve came to MIT and introduced myself as Chloe ... , not less.) I actually did go to IHOP and a few frats, played Super Smash ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012