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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  where to apply There’s this line in the Pixar movie, Ratatouille: I ... I was doing. Who knows where this path will go. But the stuff I can ... where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... gotten in. Hobbies I’d never heard of, towns I’d only heard of, and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  miles away, and i was left to fend for myself in this world where ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  life where advice can never replace lived experience, but I wanted to try ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  meaning: Last summer, I worked in an Asian clinic, where I realized the ... Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where

  • 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.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , and I'm in a position where I could hide behind my hetero relationship ... at least I have some security in mind that I can come out to them ... thing is being organized (thanks Petey!), so in the meantime I can throw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... but exactly when and where I already was. When I got deferred, I stayed ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021