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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . That’s also why I study for exams the night before, and try to avoid ... mailed, feel wonderful for all parties involved. Also, send snail mail to ... right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... Course 6 and the German department for the German courses to count as HASS

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... keep up my enthusiasm and drink tons of water to make sure my voice didn't die (my voice likes to die because I rarely talk for long periods of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ...but for all additional essays I tried to tailor them individually). okok ... saying that a great essay always contains something at the end for the reader to think about. For example, classics in world literature rarely

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  eliminate the parallelogram problem with the tools we had available to us ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... group who all wanted to help build. We didn’t have enough tools for all of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... registered for the SAT Subject Tests. I could barely wait the three months to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... , but I had never had to accommodate for so many different food ... note='a weekend where admitted students visit MIT to experience a ton of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat ... around) are available to undergrads conveniently. MIT applicants not ... path for premeds here. If you choose to not follow that path, then you

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for ... thought it’d be best for them to go elsewhere for a bit. Neither of these

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... the next."]early[/annotation]to class, for the first time in possibly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  original task was to see if this same logic would hold for stimulating ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... pretty psyched to get in). The reviewers leave comments and suggestions for

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

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before I start reading, I close everything; it's impossible for me to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  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 ... ! Approximately weekly "game theory"-ish games for Next to play Paolo why? I ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to ... Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical ... from 1:30 to 3 PM for "dinner". There were also Saturday classes: either

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021