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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... is a village in Kaffa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. I went there several times ... had neither of these. I discovered that in truth, you do not have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... they had contacted me. I had taken the SAT nearly a year ago, but that ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  studies and their athletics. I actually think that this is easier to do at ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an ... the Holocaust in all its gory detail- all I knew was that it was a war ... times I ended up in a class that was way over my current capabilities

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... summer, I'm sharing a flat with two Canadians, two Frenchmen (is that ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of ... Harvard, Wellesley, Babson, Tufts, (and a bunch of others that I’m probably

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  like a miserable place that I won't thrive in. I logically know what I ... , or I'll even forget that I have a toolbox in the first place. Part of ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... clan is his third clan. …I think? Ponder that for a while. --- My ... learning time that cannot be wasted. I learn that what is a simple

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in MIT that night. I was going to miss a connecting flight, figured I ... haunting me in a much more real way than that, and it was in thinking that I ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... wtf? why do you have that? why are you keeping it?" I was like, listen ... in this closet just a couple miles away. After the loft, I learned my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my ... , because that's what I do when I'm feeling melodramatic (or feeling, in ... sorry to inform you, we already are.” Everything I am doing is a dream

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air ... 'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... that she'd take care of me when I'd get a sinus infection I'd never had

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006