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• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my ... , where it is self-evidently life-altering even as we contemplate it. In ... should or will) do for the rest of my life. I told him it felt like I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of Mass Ave, you'll see a larger focus on student life and activities ... system special/valuable? and How has your residence affected your life?, as ... health. People wrote about how they learned life skills beyond the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... your life, it really will. CPW is the greatest moment in the annual

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... , academic advisors, or S3. Student life would be fundamentally different ... .5 hours free to manage the rest of my life, studies and all.  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  once. If my life before MIT had been walking down a smooth, pleasant ... having failed at every prior attempt at learning to code in my life, no ... had ever run in my life was five begrudging miles at a road race

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  patterns from the pattern language of my life by Natasha B. '16 Repilot by ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  [/annotation]. And that’s life so far in Austin! It’s full of parks, rivers, new ... real-life. My time at M3 Design has nurtured that little kernel in my ... .678[/annotation], I can figure that out. With the real-life experience of M3 Design

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  mail! or Everybody loved her and she led a saintly perfect life and she ... ! It's because I suck as a human being and am destined for the trash life ... might make my words seem empty. Obviously my life is set up to be perfect

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised,…

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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... fall asleep ...and that's basically my life, 5-6 days a week, for much

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

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

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... dozen numbers from somebody else’s life, consider this: I posted 4 (four ... numbers and acronyms so that it can dismiss your entire life with an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. — August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by the indignant…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  from the beginning with new things and life-changing moments, and that it ... with the rest of my life should almost always have been the priority. I ... for one of my most life-changing, defining experiences. I'm glad that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  old adage goes good grades, social life, sleep -- pick two, but I wanted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I’ve been on an extended vacation…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  One of MIT’s oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We’re the live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I’ve roleplayed as a ghost who didn’t know he…

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to ... them. To those of you who are applying to MIT and imagining your life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  tattoos now are my connection to my best friend Connie who lost her life

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019