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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... masters degree. I’ve learned how to keep learning--how to adopt new skills by sifting through (loads of) academic journals, how to find and study

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a long time, since my obsession with learning how to properly throw cards

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  -enough markets, and for the prospect of figuring out how to solve these without ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... involving education for kids, public policy, and using media to effectively

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let ... technology for technology’s sake. Perhaps there are avenues to challenge myself ... consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... -party type. I, for instance, haven't been to a frat party since early

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for ... because for most people, including me, the deterrent to reading and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... wish I did, for to love is to be vulnerable, and hoping for things is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any ... how to cry. MIT has changed me, yes. But not maybe as much as you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004