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  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... ."]WHY.[/annotation] You can see WHYs in every stage of admissions grief: Denial: WHY ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... understand that yes I do in fact have ADHD, and no I'm not taking advantage of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... proud of it. And that’s great. But it means that I can’t define myself as being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... Nothing,” Owl City’s “When Can I See You Again?” Toppings: hot fudge, gummy ... of familiar and friendly faces, some of which I haven’t seen in a while

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... 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

  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 ... City. Yes! I learned something in college! 6) Spam Mailing Lists are fun ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... my senior year of high school, I got close to a sophomore in my Spanish ... ’m aware of these thoughts, then I have power over them. So, why can’t I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off ... sent me a tweet that had the word ontology in it, one of the words I can ... around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  graduate in one of the worst recessions in decades. There’s nothing I can do ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  next few years of my life. In one of my favorite blog posts, I complain ... introducing me to some of the other people I knew who were staying in Next. I ... learned a lot of things I thought about MIT were wrong. But in the end, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... their own [annotation note="Now, one piece of practical advice I can give ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... kitch, lots of skits and picture drawing for my taste, I have learned an ... side’ of academia. I am assured that not all Liberal Arts Colleges use

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... classes as I can to see where the limits of my workload lie. I'm taking hard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I tell ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings ... of the hanging beds had railings. As you can see in the photo below ... meal made tEp feel like a family. I also loved trying (in terms of both

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality ... additional nine hours, mostly in the middle of the night. Why, you ask? See, I ... forty-five minutes of break, I slogged back to my room in the biting cold

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... my video, I wandered through the slushy streets of Cambridge in search ...  Science Out Loud was one of the coolest experiences I’ve had in relation to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015