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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  initial goals). I'm going to try and end strong and broaden the scope of ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  *. There is no shame in not majoring in engineering**. It is okay to fail a ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  're meeting with one of the dorm Heads of House to discuss a new initiative that ... the new initiative! We have a really good discussion, but I have to duck ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up ... mental health and community wellness at mit and represents my own coming-to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  you don't fail any classes, simply -1 from your MIT GPA to find the ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the place they want to spend their college years. The “weekend” itself starts

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011