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  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... starting line, where actual corrals, i.e. lines of metal bars, will split the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  than software engineering. I still don’t exactly know where I’ll be in ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in

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

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  , but just in case I run out). HOWEVER, (and this is where my advice goes ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... realized I had just lost my glasses in the fall. It's okay, I found them, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a ... . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  everything else on my schedule. I can point to maybe one, two instances where ... instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to ... how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  class where I was so unambiguously the single worst performing student in ... seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... swimming. I detested it. It made my stomach roll in folds. Did MIT care

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... 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

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

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun ... intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... stopped making it to class at all. I also stopped socializing with people in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... the probability of wearing purple underwear in each dorm where people ... , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... ? where will I live? That first question, the one my friends in Senior House ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017