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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... /dance/yoga breaks. Don’t think that you have to be working or occupied all the time

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a CI-H/HW class some time in your first year, so consider those. Also ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  great job, and you can't stop thinking about him or her all the time ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to ... of money. —Robo-CJ combining the worst parts of imposter syndrome and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... 's because of that one bad grade! It's because I didn't have time to take the ... to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... writing this essay? If that person isn’t the part of you that you were ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ,000 kilometres from home, more than ten times farther from my parents than I had ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... -profit company. I still haven't interned in a government job (a viable career

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied ... and lecture notes. This time I marked them all up with short summaries ... alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the ... . I’ll try and make time to respond as much as possible, because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  NASA. At the same time, my life ambitions have shifted dramatically over ... ’ll be a few years from now. At this time a year ago, I thought I might ... Excellent Sheep in high school, and revisited it in college; parts of it ring

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... like competition isn’t a part of MIT, but it’s different to how it was ... ’t doing all that much. I was tired, all the time, but wasn’t sure why or how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part ... had grown up in bigger areas was obvious. Most times when introductions ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days ... over my shoulder at the computer screen. The sun was having a joyous time

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... about the ETA of Rebecca's article. I mention the 8:30pm time agreed by ... little bit of face, part of the reason it took so long to edit it – aside

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  my own experiences with rejection, waitlists, and more, as a part of ... could have been. I’ve found myself unable to sleep until 3 AM many times ... could have made given what he knew at the time. I can’t fault past-me for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to accept a full-time job offer and graduate a year early. As for me ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  answer is this blog post. Here's six projects I worked on some time during ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  'steps' don't just come out of thin air most of the time. More often than ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My freshman spring was the first time I ever came to campus, and the adults who

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that reflects what I think is difficult. And finding that time (especially when

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... part of this trembling, nervous reflex. Why? I was in the middle of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010