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  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  this. At the same time, I can’t help but wonder If I could do it now, why ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... , but I can start with the ones I do know the names of. There's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for years. Like this one I found the other day; you can see the date ... saying "I know a spell that can beat that challenge!" Neville's broken into ... goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  hope I can become a sort of liaison for that. I gave a talk earlier this ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ! Many people stress out about the "Department" essay, but I can tell you ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

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

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . I do promise to get around to more of them as soon as I can. I'm sure ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  different accommodations. You can do this, I promise! [note to parents ... that can be quite demoralizing—I have personally heard freshmen say that ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• 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 ... hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can ... kind of change entire community can bring together. This is what I wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person, I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  -player character can take; a peer, a supporter, an opponent, a navigator, etc. I had ... now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

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

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  frustrated, I sometimes wonder if I’m cut out for it at all, which can be so ... -- there can be fixes. At the end of the day, I really believe that research ... sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... can! Which is a damn good thing, because I'm still hoping to recover ... wild, man. It is![annotation note="I can hear you laughing, everyone over

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  they don't graduate. In fact, I can't think of a single one off the top ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be ... top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019