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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... . Or, around the time when applicants are notified of their acceptances ... that you could go to a less challenging school and have an easier time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku ... much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my ... Alright, story time. Since the beginning of spring semester, I’ve been so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... REX, and this time, I am on assignment with MIT Technology Review ... merge one more time to high-five and expend remaining supplies. The east

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on a farm/retreat in Santa Cruz, and backpacking around Europe. Part ... I wanted some time where I wasn’t tied down in one place. So I packed ... let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I

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

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... this job. I loved the blogs very much, because they not only allowed me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there are times when your preexisting uncertainties are magnified and your ... spend time with your family and friends, and revel in the last few months

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... of the MIT population has spent very little if any time around black ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Yeahhhh....." This happens all the time at MIT. III. Additionally ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... HP7; the last time it ran was in 2011. And it's the first ten-day I

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  them, email them, and keep going. The method's inspired from my time as an [annotation note='I have talked about ESP lots of times; we are a ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  there were a lot of times where I really struggled with the online ... code since I get nervous and embarrassed every time he watches me code ... offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  time to get through Question 1 Part A of an assignment, lost to the point ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... mood until I’m completely soured and stressed by bed time. Even though

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he ... . Pullling a Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or one of these guys, if you will ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... D) Computer programmer Hosting the Discovery show 'Time Warp;' co-directed the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010