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  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 / 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 / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  are things we can do to mitigate cognitive exhaustion: I've blogged ... , because it hurts and it can't do things it usually can. When I went to the ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... to his personal standards of integrity. Don’t do something just because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves ... time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be ... , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Boston nights still gets quite cold, even in late April. I do not yet know ... place, and in the four years here, I still do not feel the energy level ... be able to do something with that knowledge, to create something, to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  where do students interact with their professors outside of class?? Are ... that... I'm worried =( Do teachers even know your name? Yeah.. it's kind ... help. Mike has one question: I have one question: How do people normally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the ... started taking me longer to do, and I found myself playing catchup into the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  's disease, nor do we expect that math and science are the only thing you ... dreams about reading applications. So, yeah, let me know how you are doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... won’t do me any harm.’ ‘Ah, but I’ll differentiate you with respect to y

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011