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  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making ... to worry about a "career" for another, oh, 4-6 years, haha. 57. See a ... for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  probably don't say to your face for fear of inflating your ego: that you ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights

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

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

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... mins 2 hours. go to class again. eat lunch. work for 5 4 hours. go to

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... promise of recognition, when you don't stand to win awards for "Character ... would be a sorry place if its students were unwilling to pause for horse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... 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 / Admissions

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

  

  process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

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

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

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She ... ask for it take the initiative to reach out for them.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... was applying to college, the single most important thing was for me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... Internet to be skeptical of anyone asking for this sort of information when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were ... , to determine the time complexity of each person's "ice cream

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... the questions that this blog post attempts to answer, for mostly selfish

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... was tragic to read, and personally fascinating to me; I’ve spent a lot ... to his personal standards of integrity. Don’t do something just because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting ... -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... is necessary for self-sustainability) to be kind to myself Xiaolu, my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018