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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt ... A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance ... weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a museum administrator, I could claim I went for professional interests, but

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean ... over 18 in order to attend Toy Fair. Apparently Maddie and I don't look ... at us but before she can say anything I chime in. "We're over 18

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . so now, i'm taking [annotation note="i'll probably elaborate on them in ... at MIT. if i could do MIT over again, i think i would have been a hass major and a 6-3 minor (but i still would have done software). i'm going

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little disappointed that I didn’t have anything to share. In elementary school, I was

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped ... ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so ... -inducing, so I would recommend this class for people interested in this area! ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... ," and it's really flexible. In 18C, I would take a variety of course 18 ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  the seats would be in an obstructed view area, we all looked at each ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018