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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . Sigh. I've never been a napper. I was that weird kid in preschool who ... , we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly more ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... the time. Painful is different. In grad school, painful means a wrong ... it’s not me, maybe it’s the lab. He bailed. He is now WAY happier in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... , and sadness is simply amazing and worth living for. I am valued in this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... used the name to drive the demon out. The process is a whole story in ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  priority is admitting enough students who can be successful. If the ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other ... , the emphasis is selecting the students who are most likely to enroll

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... answer: Hacking is not a club and you will never see it listed in any

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , who often struggle to obtain health care in a maze of foreign forms and ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... exorbitant bills. This is not acceptable in America, which claims to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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 ... Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

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

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

  

  developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with. All ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously

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

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

  

  though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day ... courage. In sharing your stories, you’ve taken a risk; you’ve opened your ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... leader, of— Focus. This time, let's tell a smaller story. It is the end ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

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

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... that perfectly depict who you are. The thing is, after all this, you ... your brother is only a year younger than you, but if you reference your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the ... experience as I realized that the world's youngest billionaire is a kid. He's a ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  still people who live in a grayscale world, and do not see bright red ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... [annotation note='a process that is still ongoing, and won’t be over until april

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... now, I recognize that this is a temporary feeling, and in a few weeks I ... post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020