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• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... May, Olivia Rodrigo came to Boston on her sour tour. The online ... was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... semester, when I made more reasonable choices, I would have more time to do ... things I'd actually managed to do. I sort of wonder if there'll ever be a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . As it happens, they turned out to be right. Listen to your elders, kids ... brain can successfully absorb, and learned what it was like to have absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  -nature to skim through these emails, glancing at the subject lines, letting ... began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts, what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat ... watching, you also may remember that I got asked to prom. What??) If you ... really wants to talk more about this, but also knows that it would be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9 ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  're excited to have you as our guests! Here are some (hopefully) helpful hints ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  .100 - Intro to Media Studies 6.08 - Intro to EECS via Embedded Studies ... 's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and ... look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to ... spiraling, smaller thoughts and feelings. Here is my best attempt to describe ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing; those words probably don’t make much sense to you, so here’s a short ... -knowledge proof is essentially when you want to prove something about an object

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022