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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I ... the point. If they can’t talk or write about their experiences with some

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... to my success. Comments like “don’t worry, you’ll still succeed” and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... must have checked the clock at least fifty times in every class. It wasn't ... should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  how much longer until he/she graduates, but you didn't ask, so I'll tell ... neurons in the striatum -- we know it's important, but we don't know how or ... the microscope. Things I do outside of lab (Graduate students don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  paper, answered my questions, and spent the lecture hoping Dr. Lois wouldn't ... - including about 120,000 LPs and 170,000 CDs - ain't all that bad either ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  bell by Elijah T. '11 14 years later by Yan Z. '12 MIT, Medicine, and ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... hours. The Harvard T station has become sickeningly familiar and frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• 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…

  

  med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can't ... college, I don't actually feel like I've gotten any older. Instead, it feels

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  winner and would have their own line of Pink! clothing. BUT! This wasn't ... . . . votes for MIT weren't being counted! It didn't matter where the votes were ... scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can't ... I have the DNA that my postdoc doesn't have. I actually say "Bonus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... parts of the GIRs you've done, and which parts you're missing. You don't ... degree charts.) You can still graduate with any major even if you don't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... , or things that you didn't quite get to Conclusion and Future Work

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  going to die…?” Me: “I...what? We usually don’t.” Driver: “Which ... on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  could read things and think, “hah that’s so allan” , but I wouldn’t ... because I get annoyed when people don't say thank you LOL.” Allan K. ‘17 ... , and 22% Slytherin" INFJ-T openness - high (90%), conscientiousness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the music, which switches from “We Can’t Stop” to “Lay Down Sally ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... shifts to “Why Can’t We Be Friends.” The action calms and the two sides

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  . My reasons for choosing aerospace engineering (Course 16), however, don't ... having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other ... fanaticism (for airplanes, or for anything else, really), was something I didn't

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

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  fucked up. If your subconscious doesn’t keep you down, you’ll wish it did ... sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... won’t do me any harm.’ ‘Ah, but I’ll differentiate you with respect to y

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• 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…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need ... didn't help that submitting to that reaction seemed like an unraveling of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  integrity of [annotation note="Reviewers can't know who the authors of the ... to convince MIT that we wouldn’t burn the school down. I became the ... cruft being like “huhh that’s odd.. I don’t remember Spinning Arts doing

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ="alignnone" width="768"] we are not taking feedback[/caption] institute gyms We didn’t ... : If we have to nitpick, the gym doesn’t have mirrors in front of the ... GOOD: There isn’t a huge variety of targeted machines, so this gym is

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024