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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  fields of work. 7. The Real World, Year 1: Value People Skills as well as ... country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I received a twin (Briana B. '17) rather than big or little, since we were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  break! it is always tempting to take an extra day or week to cram in more ... little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is ... friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days ... phone. 1 minute to go. The air around me was completely still. Instead of ... check. 1 minute. Something instantly changed within my head. My thoughts

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  within 2 days of each other, making my November quite literally full of ... ; i've never seen or handled a literal brimstone ... and determined what [annotation note="Academics (or at least the ones i

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... -eighty. I was 90% set on becoming a neurologist, because 1) I figured that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or ... have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it ... from a situation and not look back or apologize. This is number 2

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Oakland, CA. Be at least 7y/o or older. Retain A 3.0 Grade Point Average ... Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... regularly since I was 10 or so, and my mountain bike was far too small and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  under conditions which are not conducive to either health or study ... Stratton offering $100,000 ($1.4 million, adjusting for inflation) if ... readers that rot and conflagration are not a concern added by leaving the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... 't know what course 1 is (civil/environmental engineering). Someone was ... whole picture. The way that students identify or categorize majors and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary ... twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9 ... embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... reading this article the other day about how we can be discriminatory in our

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... ’s try that again. Hello, my name is also Ana. Or, well, our name is Ana ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier ... get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... , or Pitch Perfect. Sometimes we’ll binge on romantic comedies, and other

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020