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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  around the world. I’d like to finish by asking you to do me a favor. Think ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the ... , with the energy and creativity to improvise if - when - something doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not ... why I’ve been too restless to get enough sleep, or the shaky feelings

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

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... interaction, I sometimes take a brisk walk to the drugstore and purposefully

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... energy is starting to dip. By 11pm, the reviewers are finally all gone ... . Things get heated.  Voices are raised.  We decide to adjourn the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... the Ring, we finally get to present our designs at Ring Premiere!!! So ... ! Luckily for me, my part of the presentation was first, so I got to get the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Seven ... . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the

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

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially ... that's not the case. You tend to only notice the large groups, but the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i ... (??) because I only heard about them and wasn't able to find them by the end of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... as a “listener.” You can play a fun game by going to the subject ... get money from MIT to host cool events. Consequently, the choices are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... their spring 2010 edition) I should have died by now, considering the way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to ... -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... not having to specialize by becoming a science writer 5) the summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... by now, because suddenly all the questions I am asking myself have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the ... the screen and got back to work. -- TWO WEEKS AGO -- I had received an ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  's important to find someone whose style benefits you the most, so you can get ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007