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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn't ... after an eight year battle with cancer. I wouldn’t give up these memorials ... native tongue. If you know what to do you know what to do. If you don't

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  , because both EC and BC didn't have air conditioning in individual rooms and ... Tau Epsilon Phi (abbreviated as tEp), a co-ed fraternity located on Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay. tEp was an incredibly vibrant and accepting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  career. But it doesn’t feel like anything worth celebrating about. I spent ... between my study habits then and now: I didn’t study on my bed or got ... campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  "]IAP.[/annotation] This isn't the occasional anxiety you receive from normal events, like an ... anxiety because the situation wasn’t funny anymore. 1 I’ve started to ... feels different this time though: I don't think of the future as this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  ." I [annotation note="tEp is a co-ed fraternity that is very against ... from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living this summer and next year. I'm grateful that tEp, another tightknit and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC ... -code platform like Appian or Mendix or Zoho Creator, wouldn't that already have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  May 1, 2019, but registration won't open until August 26. This is ... figure out what classes they actually want to take. Some people still can't ... classes, attend the first lectures, and choose which ones to drop. There isn't

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been ... won't get brownie points by putting down "programming," "building robots

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  couldn't figure things out on their own. By second semester freshman year I ... occasions. I would skip meals reasoning that I'd got up late, so I didn't need ... bed soon, anyways, as soon as I finish this last problem... This wasn't

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or ... and you were tired while you were working but now you aren’t. You go to ... say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn't ... . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  when you want to switch it up and hang out with people you don’t see ... indiscriminately? Don’t be scared of people. Easier said than done, especially when ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... before they are due, don't let people tell you that you "should be more ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn't

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006