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  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... doing my work. this means letting my body sleep when it's tired, even if it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  you’ll need to do something, and double it. That’s how long it ... . Deal with it how you may, but it will always be true. The time you spend ... —find it. Being excited to learn will do far more for you in the long run

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... drafting this post; after learning how long I’ve been here, one of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  how far this philosophy got me. So now it's July in Germany, it's hot ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in Burton-Conner, laundry machines accept both quarters and MIT TechCash, so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards, and something that stung deeply when it was denied him. It was also

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  they happen, who the students are, how large it is, and how long it is ... messages, thanking them, talking to people about how I felt. It took a long ... here? Do I deserve to be here? How does this reflect on me as a person

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  "]length[/annotation] and [annotation note="who is it used by, and where does it take you ... , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... ’s River Street which runs through it, is a 64 meter long [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  done, as it always does. But it's days like these when I feel I should ... ? I have like, four more years before it becomes socially unacceptable ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  having it right there. So if you're coming a long way, you might just bring ... still live to talk about it. All dorms have kitchens, but how much you want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  tensions between China and the US and Taiwan, who knows for how long borders ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take ... thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion, a long-term kind. Ever since I’ve arrived, it feels as if each day ... slower, like it does in the movies. Those thirty minutes sitting alone felt ... -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  . Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior ... most natural thing to do. It feels all the more real, right now, how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... MIT (it does take guts), you surely have big dreams! And since all big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time. It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , and consistent with, their own principles, and not prioritize how it ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... admissions decision, because we would not view it as inappropriate or lacking

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had ... , how i'm glad it's done, but, god, how i wish i had more time. when i was ... people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  those who are now where I was not so long ago. It takes one person to ... all born, and it's after 1991. Please follow unnamed ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012