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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... grief. I remember that in my first year my whole life revolved around this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a ... . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... tolerance. As I'm coughing just by smelling it in my room TT: Kano's making

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  attack. you all are in a place called 'home'. i would rather not have you ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... , and I was so excited to see what it would’ve been liked. I would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . PhD in hand, I thought I would drop in (hello!) and share some thoughts ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... . "MIT students are way smarter than me... I must've gotten in by accident

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... rare that the piece felt too valuable to publish. I would’ve kept the ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak ... had me take it in whatever direction I desired. Originally, I had landed

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a ... all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , I imagine theirs would be in the 3-5 range. So I definitely don ... that every day after school (starting probably in middle school), I would ... + Community at MIT, I asked current and former bloggers if they would be willing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... : Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015