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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... what fulfilled me academically, professionally, and personally. I was ... more during the Spring which made me question why I wanted to transfer in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Ave from across Lobby 7: always reminded me that wow, I go to MIT. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... ’s horn. Then it hit me. Snow! I was so excited I made my roommate stay up with me past midnight trying (and failing) to build a snowman. I’m sorry

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting ... competition experience or etc. will pull me far behind my classmates and I ... stoichiometry problems and math problems... they're fun for me, but I don't have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  like, it’s paramount to actually reach out to the chapter near you or the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's coronavirus response, we had to cancel both programs. And this made me pretty ... involves. I don't know what, exactly, led me to nominating myself for ... Summer HSSP didn't happen, in over sixty years. And part of me felt really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... important decisions to make than me: “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue ... . For me, a reset usual means yoga, food prep, laundry, ironing, and maybe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... was cold but the conversations kept me warm, and being there was the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel ... . And someone told me that it helps to scratch off the tattoos, which ... skin. It made me happy to hear that my temporary tattoo idea was helpful

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• 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

  

  that) So if you’re like me, maybe you wonder what combination of ... unwieldly. Microphone - This clips onto (1) and makes me look like a tech ... ’s not for me. Also my bike key, Hubway key, and apartment key

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours ... interesting than they were in high school. I was younger than everyone around me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... confuses me because I'm actually Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). After ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  took me all day. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it. Organic ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... 'd give me a day instead of the allotted hour. Even still, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... artistic, so having painted a mural is a very big deal for me. :) James H ... crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much ... thing that was so unsettling for me wasn't the stuff about sharing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  hope that MIT would provide me with an extraordinary experience en route ... , who was rejected, tells me that he was hurt and disappointed not because ... me. But I will venture to challenge every one of you - those who are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011