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

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to want your child to succeed and to encourage them to do well, threatening ... think) lectures are actually detrimental to your learning. Sometimes it

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That ... feeling to know that you’re not alone and that there are so many people ... crises, an easy option is to focus solely on yourself. You could very

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  on this one, just because a) it's a fun way to get to know your ... since you can just store them on your computer, but it's nice to have some ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got ... Adam's CEO finished undergrad here in 1979, then continued on to do his ... sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get ... voted on which product we wanted to move forward with. Concert Lift was ... wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  good platform on which to build. MITAdmissions.org If you're reading this ... the site to surface old content and help people get access to useful ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... to many more measurement problems later on"]we decided it was within

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... out. march on, march on. guest post by Piper ('17) -- a new friend, and

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... nowhere to visit a friend I made on a train. I had a great semester off, and ... took time to myself to work on my projects and I took vacations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... away, unwilling to try to understand a dish of something new. Eventually ... somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012