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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  dark brain fairies at bay, and now I make it a priority. I do make sure ... (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  to do with my intelligence; I'm just rambling. You got A's because you ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• 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?

  

  kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for ... . Rolling did not sooth you. Men do not roll. You are a bug. This intrigues ... do you have so many new emails? The emails are due to a dorm email

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for a while, and although we're all supposed to be doing work, this is ... turns out documenting everything you do, as you do it, takes quite a bit ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination ... a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  brain and chances are I'll discover a new lead to doing the problem at ... yourself - what you like to do, your dreams, and what defined you as a person ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  athleticism, and a push for doing things your own way. However, it is also a ... and in doing so I was not a part of us. When I first got into MIT, I ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... live this close to a Starbucks ever again, but I hope I do. Chipotle: I ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  .PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  sentimental of a person and do that crap everytime I go home, and because I was ... of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate ... friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about the value

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... agree with the general aspects of a libra. I do not agree with the ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... cried a lot and felt like I was useless and not doing enough for the ... thoughts Introduction I entered MIT as a potential bioengineering major with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020