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• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... sad that there are many things that you cannot do to spend your days in the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... “deepest secrets”, and it’s been more object-level. more how are you doing ... productive, are you on top of your classes? do you still feel anxious about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... hard, make all the cheatsheets, do the practice tests, go to office hours

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... . Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was ... pallet of beautiful teak or mahogany, nor do I have anywhere near the skill required to do those materials the justice they would deserve. So instead, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  that shrouds me—am i doing the right by trading new endeavors and ... , be managing my time better? am i not doing enough? my day slips by ... . no longer would i fall prey to the Hellish Void that is YouTube—i’d do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  .  People are good, I really do believe that. When you don’t know what to do, remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... wanted so badly to just do all the things! But a lot of times, this would

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... ."][/annotation] I think this concept also applies on a semester scale. When I’m doing ... HASS readings. So I scrape by, I do exactly what I need to do, and all

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous ... 'm still stressed and busy, still without enough time to do it all, to keep ... tasks on my to-do list that I had neglected. Then came yet another soul

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  next year, hopefully teach you what not to do. I started early. Like ... ;_< >_>), but this time I was doing great! I finished up a few drafts ... just listed things I liked to do/did for my community. It was incredibly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  . What do you want to do? Erg/elliptical/bike/run? Watch TV? Play pool? How ... for later): 1) Do I need a mini fridge? Are you on a meal plan? If the ... to the Z Center and Student Center so what more do you need. Also

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange ... sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . Rarely do I feel like I can really be 100% myself around people, especially

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  't worry too much about the 8.01 test you didn't do so hot on; it doesn ... -- stay up late like you're already doing, since you won't get many ... enjoy it! Go do as many cool things as you can -- it will be so hard to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  , only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit ... . “Fuck you! Do you know that you just ruined my day? What were you ... heard “You suck!” And a male friend of mine said later, “It’s ok. They do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  building full of friendly people your age). I also had a chance to do lots of things I failed to do while at school, such as: sleep every night, not fall ... freshly-minted Real Adults do, buying furniture and finding friends, working

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  they’d teach later that day. After all, we are MIT students and we do ... . Clearly everyone else knows what they are doing and learned all of the material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing ... lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their ... in your reader’s position. Do you want to know everything the character wore/saw/smelled? What do you want to know? Mind the flow. Every tale

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  outdoorsy, but I do appreciate fresh air and pretty foliage as much as the ... . The lunchtime discussion had something to do with defining the bounds on ... my brother and me. This was our first time doing Family Weekend. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... Algebra) do, while all my other classes have projects or online design labs ... spend significantly longer working on any given pset than freshmen do

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015