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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... related fears of the water, of too much work, of being overwhelmed. I came ... . I'm talking about serious life lessons. Not all of them translate well

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... not resubmit anywhere else to avoid another semester of brimstone and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  a party. You are not working on psets. This is a party email. Everyone ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am ... and you were tired while you were working but now you aren’t. You go to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  couldn’t have the machine not work because of me. But I got the electronics ... milestone, we split into four sub-teams and worked on four ideas: my boot ... uses sonar; and a line-following laser cutter. I worked with three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you ... did not know about fuses. I still don’t. You might notice that the bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fact, that at times it will irrefutably convince you that it is not procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... ! Curious? There are two key steps to for this process to work. 1) Read all of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... aquifer, meaning that it has a ton of rivers, lakes, and springs dotted all ... Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Failure is Not an Option"]book[/annotation], get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  Believed That I Was Not Good Enough. Didn’t finish that video lecture in 2x ... . and. a. half. years I have not given myself compassion. With the help ... own, it means four hours. Not the time that I hoped for, not at the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot ... -July."]before,[/annotation] but after two weeks of not getting any references about Zuko and ‘that ... should not have been watching at 10/11 years old like The Vampire

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

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... that I addressed the question?" Throughout your years of schooling, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  while, if not ever. I’m sad to leave behind my childhood home, but I ... teachers who used to work as a therapist at a juvenile delinquent center ... good, solid reasons why it’s earned this negative image, to the extent

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  being called out -p"]working on not-class things in class ... much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating ... side of these games worked: a “behind-the-scenes” tour of everything that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory all summer, and when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a ... ; Unlike many people who read the blogs, I did not grow up dreaming of ... . It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to ... Boston nights still gets quite cold, even in late April. I do not yet know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  bit. I wasn’t sure whether I imagined it or not, so I left it to see if ... and contract when I tilted the head forward and back. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  hope that helps address some of them. Point is, MIT is hard work, but it ... this as we all miss Ben while he's off working at a different school ... and brightest... and I'm a bit worried that I'm not as bright and shiny

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... affected by not only logistics, weather, and funding, but also politics

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  return address. William Shakespeare. Acting on a hunch, I flipped through ... ’s not as if it’s his first book and he is dying to have an undergraduate ... 'll find something that works for both of us. Yours, -APWBD” Before coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011