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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do ... great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  very differently than publishing in medical research, for example! Doing ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... you try to squeeze why you're doing this study, what you found out, and

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

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

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... human I'd ask them yes haikubot is now starting to do really really

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  'm running out of clean clothes. The instructor says "What do you guys think?" and I am currently unable to think. Do I hear a weed-eater or a ... as I do. In this lecture, the instructor and TAs have left their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every ... groups of three and follow along with lectures via laptop. We do group ... don't know what to do." "They seem to be doing something right, maybe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... application processes – this is about the worst thing you can do when applying ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to ... of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... with a stipend!) by MIT. (Please, please do this. If you need help

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... to keep at it, trying to run four days a week and do miscellaneous free

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  works, what else can you do? Like The Blogfather said, the “fun and ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your ... pretty unique place, and people do things differently on the outside. Ask

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  for 77 Kelvins. 15:17 - 16:17 Game Theory and Chocolate Do you like game theory? Do you like chocolate? Do you like learning about some ... to do so. Come snuggle up with some comfy blankets, eat some comfort

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... again and just doing it myself The people who helped get me past my own

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• 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 ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  work harder than I ever could before and do great things with my life. I ... hardest exams I've ever taken and I had to use everything I knew to do the ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time ... isn't as good, and there is more fog and kale. And I still do go back

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  hear freshmen doing that sometimes, and it makes me sad. I wish I had ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn't the only way of doing things, and that your peers aren't the only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can ... stuffed toys to finals. Bring your stuffed toys to class. Do things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... native tongue. If you know what to do you know what to do. If you don ... are bigger than Atlanta, and when you do I want you to be ready. Part

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019