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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... lasts quite a while. – This semester, I took Disease and Society in ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  saying "Mohamed sent you a message in Canvas" right before an exam, I know ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... actually merge the two in a thesis if I wanted to. My grandpa passed away a ... as an undergrad, which made me realize I did NOT want a career in wet

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  like a miserable place that I won't thrive in. I logically know what I ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... been the best skill I learned in college. To acquire it, join a student ... Jones' 50 Things as a student. I recommend you keep his post open while

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... ? Keep you in the dark, you know they all pretend What if I say I'm not ... ? What if I say you're not like the others? (Keep you in the dark) What if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... often, I notice students get caught in a rut when they're writing the ... ) "I felt that I grew a lot from the adversity present in this situation

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  in a few months. I have three and a half more years to keep trying ... the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life ... supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry ... my senior year of high school, I got close to a sophomore in my Spanish

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel ... am what you call a “marketer’s dream”, who buys trinkets at the check

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  dive in deep. To close my eyes a bit and to really look at what I like, I ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole ... freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a ... all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science

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