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

  

  Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take ... itself now?” Senior: “No.” Me: “So what do we have to do?” Senior: “Divide ... the operations by rote memorization: they have no idea what a fraction

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

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry ... will and the administration will have no mercy if you miss a deadline. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the ... —as contrasted with the subject matter of that experience. It is clear that no single style of education and no small set of alternative styles is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... ’t worry about sounding stupid, or getting into an area you have no

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  no machine can tell you. You've been warned. Click.) 3. The first and ... the graders will spend no more than a couple of minutes on your essay ... read before. What does this mean? No "happily ever after" endings, no

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

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  like me here’ and ‘there are people different from me here.’ No student ... consider race.']no other workable methods can achieve that critical mass ... like. Meanwhile, our generous need-based, full-need, no-loan financial

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  suddenly complex and problematic. I could no longer walk into a room with the ... , smooth rock wall with no discernible points of purchase and no way over ... machine, and the intellectual wiring no longer electrocuted everyone who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy ... remembered that we were standing in a wooden box with no electronics inside, so ... together in one group, while I was left alone in the other. Giving me no

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  malalapitan; here I am, drenched from the rain, nowhere to find shade, no one to ... rain. There's this impression of rain being a solitary experience. No ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in ... tree. Pockets have no capacity to sense, so they must find an anchor spot ... atmosphere, with no signs of clearing in the next few weeks (months? years

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  a literary agent and published a book. But I found no joy in self ... their own language. But I found no fulfillment in exploiting economic loopholes, no matter how beautiful the numbers were. I’m nearly twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  robot falls down a ramp in a walking motion (no power, no motors, no

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... college when I actually felt like saying no to people who would ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting, excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... step is particularly key because you have no idea how the text in your

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... something about how I didn’t think so, no, and I personally wasn’t an ... my mind. Look, there’s no real upside to pretending that people don

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... ’s no well-defined path, and there’s certainly not a projected end date ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  spent the rest of the day coloring. There was no swooping deus ex machina ... TV every now and then, and trying not to say no to opportunities to go ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... becomes blessed/cursed with the inability to say "no" to any particular ... you are. No one has it figured out - and that's awesome. So just keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  far is based on hard work, and if you work hard too there is no reason ... school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members ... we come from will look at you with confusion. You will no longer be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019