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  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  my understanding of his motive after binge-reading Wikipedia plot ... certainly don’t want to ascribe morality to my emotions. Anyway, it’s Thanksgiving, and here is some of what I am thankful for: my mother, my father

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note ... curious if I still had access to things from my old job. Because you ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  's something that followed me throughout my freshman year, all the way through ... , but my outlook shifted just a little bit, and everything clicked into ... , solidifying these things in my mind took a huge weight off of my shoulders

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... ’t even get a chance." Similar thoughts had been floating around my head ... beginning of my senior year, I lost an aunt to cancer. Less than a month ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  Chris, I hope you are doing well during this challenging time. My name is ... computing. You might have seen me on MIT's home page earlier talking about my ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  🎶Will the stars align? 🎶 🎶Will my interviews go fine?🎶 🎶Will the job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly ... 😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to ... grants me a rare solitude in my suite kitchen. The counter is clear, all ... dinner time, it's fun to share the kitchen with my suitemates, but I love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  present to you my schedule from this week: Highlight Reel: Monday: Nothing ... practice saber fencing, my PE class this semester. Saturday: Basically, I ... generator with my partner before we both bailed to play pool. We probably

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now available at     > > > my.mit.edu < < <      You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then realized i had a bunch of unfinished work for my UROP. hanging over my head ... behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of ... with my results. Curiously, I found myself returning to certain

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... storytelling - and that my major combination is pretty rare. Explaining how my ... putting "CMS & 6" on my handwritten nametag. This gave a lot of people

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC ... replacing a block of my calendar with a trip to Istanbul, and didn't feel 100 ... travel across the world—my head nearly exploded trying to process that idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... 's my list: 1. Humanities matter. I'm expounding on this point from my

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  was as good a time as any to cast off my noobishness.  I'm taking Intro ... coming to MIT, I had never cooked before in my life.  Nada.  Zip.  (okay ... decided immediately to live in a non-meal-plan dorm and cook all my meals

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  : Biology (including research techniques) Chemistry <- my least favorite ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... amazing people. My role, which I was privileged to have, was simply to help identify and select them. As I reflect about my experience at MIT, I am

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... , but then my flight got canceled, leaving me frustrated and with an intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012