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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let ... planning things after work virtually impossible. For a while, I accepted ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... could expect no more from myself. I gave no updates, for nothing had ... trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh ... 's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  :  One meal for each of the three books/seasons. I considered doing a meal ... , symbolism, or theme. For a few weeks throughout the summer, I would watch ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you need a well-paying job when you graduate? B: So I can live well. A: Why ... where they do because we've reached a complete [annotation note="i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... . If I had a plan, it ate the plan. …But I'm still me. So I can come up ... a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... campus for a medical reason (this saved me thousands of dollars when I had ... what makes you happy. Find a time and a place every day where you can be

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... of challenge. For a while, I flailed. I would come to class or to the ... I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS

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

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to the Jersey City loft where I’ll be staying this IAP--I’m spending the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... was far away from my parents. For some reason, though, I think that ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  for one of my early blogs: I was a freshman then, and you can totally ... free food from every dorm and living group I could traverse, a nontrivial ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... : WHY am I not good enough for them? [annotation note="Nothing like a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... not ever fixing it!!!! so I've been buying soap this whole time for the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i ... can take a break, do something i enjoy now, and figure it out later ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  been a whirlwind and there are moments where I feel like I haven't truly ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... semester at MIT. I was in a house where I had sour relationships with my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  write this out explicitly, though, because this is a place where I fall ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... paragraph on why. Why follow this advice? I have two reasons: first, having a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011