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

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which has become a standard for coming-of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want ... interview: as far as I'm aware, most UROPs require some kind of interview. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... harder and harder to convince myself of that. I was always that kid in the ... course, I did what a lot of us do in the wake of new confidence. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  ="70805" /] I'm reminded of an essay, Hackers and Painters. In it, Graham compares ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’ 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 activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality ... written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the ... along. If I really can't think of anything, I cheat and do something like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... things that we love. it snowed in boston this week, and i thought of this ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your life. This is one of the reasons it's such a difficult choice, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... need to take 8.022 to major in physics. She said I was not in danger of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  of the best things I’ve participated in since coming to MIT.    ... :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith ... , because I know I wondered Students in Cru attend a number of churches in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• 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 with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But ... company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student

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

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... the Charles River. (You can catch glimpses of Stu’s office in some of ... I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... rather than a member of them, as I know alumni in the area who are still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018