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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... of my life acquiesced to the [annotation note="when your motivation ... ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  you are! ;) But I think it's just the coolest thing 😍 I get to write ... ... getting to go home at 5 pm and have the rest of the night to yourself ... incredible. I get to cook dinner with my parents! Or go out with my friends! My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... and smash a ball or whatever. tl;dr you have to take PE and you're

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually ... ’t always have to be that extreme. I get the sense that people here do see me ... --maybe you’re not going to use all the geometry and algebra you learned

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  ’s getting close to the 9am deadline and the pset drop boxes are two buildings ... new grad they’ve ever hired, so when I found out they were going to have ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  towards the train station, I managed to get a video: Also - KEIRA ... IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect ... 'll have to come up with your own). By freshman year I actually knew I ... morning I started to get nervous. I'd been told that decisions come out 15

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  last weekend just to get a Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino. Well, I ... you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... , with padding around the bar-rope joints to protect your joints. The only ... enough to do it on your own. Since this class, I have been trying to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... class this year is 21M.030, or as you'd want to tell your grandmother ... major company in what you're interested in doing will be there to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  the sailing class next semester, so maybe I'll get this to 50% before I ... percentage to like, 75% on its own. But I do feel shitty and sad about getting ... the qualifications to get those jobs. Cons: I will be a broke

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed ... otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that ... potential future classmates... in short, get a taste of MIT. If you're already decided on MIT, CPW allows to meet your classmates, check out which dorm you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you’re ... , it gets slightly easier. Your third language? Okay now it's easy. Your ... ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  down to the country kitchen and cooked ourselves dinner Diana: your ... was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  : If you're not into this, don't worry—you don't have to be very good at ... , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... , confident as you please. I tend to solve problems quickly, so the extreme time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  in mind as you tackle your question? Break down. Now get to ... the process you're taking to get there. Technical Technical questions do ... product manager is that you wear a lot of different hats. You're going to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... , to be comparing your school to a home. Cue eye-roll. I have been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016