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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... to see what I had forgotten, what shoelace was missing, what sock was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to ... classes but I couldn’t bring myself to start it. How the scariest part was ... -exhibiting part of my brain knew how hard this was to admit, even if the emotion

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Monica's high school) "dared" me to talk about "how many real fluke ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  constant tab of how much time I have left to finish an assignment before I ... thinking about how I can’t wait to be done, I stress over crunching time and ... want to do is watch more episodes of True Blood? How quickly can I shower

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... he was very, very knowledgeable. That lab consisted of learning how to ... about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the ... will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  wanted to go is terrifying. Worse yet, think how much more traumatic ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... mean by them, and how they play into our admissions process. When we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... stress and fear about if I’m going to graduate and how I (can’t) afford ... 't there anymore. If you observed me coming home to my apartment and how I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... through space and time toward to meet me. I think about how this year ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014