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  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  he'd recommended me for a customer support job in what would become the ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the problem, for Sam, and for many students like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  : “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” There are a ... sessions. When you choose a school, you're choosing the professors you ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl ... photograph of a swing and how that image says more about the world than any

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... emotions for the first time. He's a five-year-old inside a college senior ... here for three years now, yet he has the emotional range of a two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the ... the room of a friend I deeply cared for. I never really got to say ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  , he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder ... the best—things have a crazy habit of working out in the end in world of ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... together and do a bunch of math for a week. Thousands and thousands of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a thousand tigers! FOR THE GLORY OF RANDOM HALL! 18:17 - 19 ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... it’s true. I’m a bit amused at the prospect of you being angry at me

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... would be on a given day in the year, but was more interested in coding the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010