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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  , my dream is that all of my trainees go on to succeed. How to work with ... .   Afeefah: I got about six hours of sleep last night, which is ... what the ethical and right thing to do is.  What is one of the hardest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... few tears. He gave me a hug and a frame of reference with which to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... with members of Delta Sigma Theta. While Nikayah would go on to later ... to either visit her and invite her to different cities on the coast or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  video on rejection, “Being rejected is kind of awesome. It means you ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... like to know what's going on, and all of these unknowns pushed my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... temperament or sense of humor, to compelling personal experiences, to a wide ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venice, on my birthday, which happened to fall on Carnivale. Venice is ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  , and my three advisees on Saturday to check in with all of them and ... working on, like the results of the MIT 2023 Talent Show: [embed ... other had to write down the code in pseudocode or a language of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... ." You feel like you are burnt out or that you are on the verge of burning out, but in reality you are on the verge of deciding whether or not you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  question of whether Christianity is delusional or dangerous. It’s led to some ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... ="102008" /] We do lots of events across Boston is what I’m trying to say. Some

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  if you somehow manage to miss out on all of those opportunities, you ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community ... put a ton of stress on its internal structure, and cause it to break or ... switch to working on one of my final projects. This is for one of my course

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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  of your four years Keri on how having too many extracurriculars is ... explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011