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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  from the process, I wanted to talk about how applying to jobs was ... advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way ... 's pause for a second to unpack that. It's definitely not true that every

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how ... to, to stop pretending that i believed in god if i didn't, to not have ... have a reason to be worried about not finishing my psets on time. last

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I used to be where they are [annotation note="except not really ... little weird, often quiet, and generally unsure of how to approach other ... . I finally have a direction to move in, but for once in my life I'm not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  not disappoint. Its hues of pink and orange merged majestically to yield ... ringtone to a bird chirping, but it was not the same. Also, it never woke me ... Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  dependent on how good I was at it, not in general and not in comparison to ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this ... , I intentionally try not to make any new ones, and though I could still ... ...) A lot of things happened to me that I am quite sure did not happen to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  the local museums. Which means that I really have no excuse not to go ... color pencils and drew for fun. 7. Learn how to iron my clothes - At least I know how to do laundry... 8. Watch every episode of Arthur in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  particularly endear us to her. She wrote down suggestions for how to get to our hostel from the airport (take the trolé) as well as for how to deal with ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I ... 'm not intentional about making space for it. So, I don't know exactly how ... preserved somewhere. I want to push my boundaries as an artist, but I'm not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  that he had not even been allowed to know who it was. Exactly one blogger ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  business is not an option for most people, though it is a convenient way to ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for ... children? If not (or if you are a male), do you expect your spouse to take

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... many internships they were applying to, or how many classes they were ... team, I did my best to not show my tears, the complete, unrestricted

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  addition to not giving up, though, I also constantly made plans on how to get ... ”. They are rather graphic lyrics and people seem not to notice this ... full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  welcome to: Alice L. '24 of California, who definitely has not drunk cell ... Styles Vincent H. '23 of Texas, who went to Project School to learn how ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  bridge and design different structural options. She also learned how to use ... sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to ... the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Thanks to computers, it's not so hard to correct things these days, so ... figure out whether or not you might want to spend the next four years of ... exactly how tempting it is to put things off...but look at this way: do you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  with my time afterwards. I could have a cushy tech job and not have to ... 't really know how to get here anymore. I tried being a software person at a ... 's not the kind of person I think I am, nor the kind of person I want to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  I didn't want to go, but after I saw how happy all of my friends were ... Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... , junior year, post-grad, first job, etc, etc. I originally intended to just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017