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  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science ... time, was somewhat of a mythical place. I was only in 8th grade, and ... option back in 2014. But also, I know I didn’t have a good sense of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... photo I took of the Charles River from campus in late November of my ... channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i ... of you in meet the bloggers! Robo-CJ writes haiku On HaikuBot i am in ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to ... of motion that involved putting one foot in front of the other (I

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be truly unlimited in your pursuit of knowledge, and nowhere else can you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... relationship. Both in writing and in person, I'm still kind of awkward about it ... made some effort has been successful in securing a relationship. I am of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• 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 ... in the future I'm in the process of writing a few more papers right now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  third year since I graduated from MIT, in June of 2013. It is also the ... and loss of energy. (Wikipedia) It was October, and I had turned in my ... felt I had sort of mailed in. But I had never, or almost never, earned a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  class in favor of one I found more interesting, in which my TA is so ... usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... am not in sole control of my life. But I have also come to understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... made of glass this term. I'm leaving MIT! It's totally sad. I just walk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007