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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it ... be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  posted this, because it really made me think. It's certainly a fair post, and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  maybe lecture some intro material. You can do a surprising amount of ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... 'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... they were doing as a result of it. I found people who deeply felt that ... meet. That could be you, in a couple of years. Which people do you want

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... minds. It is not a cheap, easy, or quick thing to do. It requires ... Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a

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

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  psetting, there's no reason you shouldn't sit at a different desk doing the ... labor intensive. A lot of graders I know will do it late at night or when ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  probably wouldn't do well but tried my best anyway. I started a water project ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  watch freshmen do MIT and I've learned a lot about parents just by ... . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and -- if you’re in a field like mine -- you can do your work from ... , white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... 't like a thing… do something else! This includes a specific event, a group ... whelm. But do know that that's okay. Find a freakout buddy, and scream

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• 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 ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015