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  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a ... . Spring HSSP is a long-term program, open to middle schoolers and high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... their aspirations. [The editors] would not be surprised to find the gilt ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  ,[/annotation] and a few additional classes I find interesting. A: Why do you want to ... Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two to find a better guess, converging over time. As I worked on the EKF ... maneuver. Finding these trajectories continues to be a challenge, but my ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... turned out to be partly true, partly false. I think a better explanation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... being able to find any common ground. But this semester I switched majors

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  my power, find my story and be able to tell it in a strong and powerful ... 'll hear a new story and remember it, find new hope and latch on to it ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... ="I am not trying to wander into a philosophical discussion here. the point ... overall morality of a decision, but rather that it matters to your personal

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... exploring until you find something meaningful to you. And finally… Achieve ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  a person—and to find out that they are depressed—when I have been ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  , you'll find good company here. Telling students they have to learn a ... 't think so. I think I will simply have to find a different path to reach my ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007