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  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  parts of the GIRs you've done, and which parts you're missing. You don't ... degree charts.) You can still graduate with any major even if you don't take anything major-specific for your first year, though, so don't worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make ... up on a backlog of work over the next few days, but I don't think that ... ."]individual application[/annotation] to MIT. But I don't think you should be alarmed for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  because I get annoyed when people don't say thank you LOL.” Allan K. ‘17 ... I just don't think this is me whatsoever”  “a lot of these questions ... read or (maybe just dreamt, I honestly don't remember) that they are good

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  don’t want anyone else to go through it—but I hope he learns to fight as ... temporary thing,” he said. “You don’t know what you’re gonna do if this falls ... receptive. Sofia’s answer was spot on. I don’t want to string any more of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .022 is harder. And do I want to learn math? Here’s the thing -- I don’t ... enjoyed that. Of course I don’t enjoy that. #  [did I stop liking math ... makes me want to stay. 8.02 could well be a good class. I don’t think I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  don’t have to choose between the two. You don’t have to discard your ... , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don’t

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  john. "but don't look up. feel it against your cheeks, or your ears. look ... ," asked claire, "if you wanted to go against the wind?" "you don't," said ... trying to do work on days i don't have the energy to, i could make my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... “work, friends, and sleep.” While I don’t think this is true, I have ... question of what makes life meaningful] which I fundamentally don’t buy is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  surrounded by school, and other students who are constantly working. I don't ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  still love writing more than pretty much anything else, I don’t want to ... curiosities and dreams, but I don’t know what to do with that. I want to learn ... , so I think I’ll spend a few years gaining exposure,” she said. “I don’t

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  2.THU is not really a class--it’s my thesis!!!!!!!!! This means I don’t ... don’t we: Have you thought about where you’ll apply this year? So ... question is still basically: I don’t know yet, ask me in a few months

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 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 ... researchers, say “I don’t know” pretty much every day. Executing projects is ... the latter (and probably most people) are those who don't feel like they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  anyone whose problems don’t seem to be important enough to others to merit ... ’m rambling, I’m just really excited about so-and-so.” Don’t be sorry! It ... don’t mean to say it’s an objectively superior ideal to study something

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  've finally fallen into a pattern, and while I don't think I've nearly gotten ... silence. “Please don't let me become boring,” I said. Cory folded up his 3 ... happy. And it's odd, because I don't think anything changed, but I think I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  ” colleges that really mattered, but I don’t think I really believed that ... is admitted - not your scores. And, finally, please please PLEASE don’t ... admission rate. Don’t let that happen.

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  lurch, because you don’t wanna stop. You wanna keep moving. When I came ... suddenly decided it wants to run instead of cycle. I don’t think it’s because ... relatives and family friends and even people I don’t know, in terms of checks

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  scenario: there aren’t, and you look elsewhere. Don’t feel intimidated. TAs ... you’re feeling a little bold and don’t want to deal with the possibility ... Children’s Hospital, for example. I don't have any personal experience with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  her article. See! Don't doubt your writers! 8:53pm: I'm finally ... don't even know how this came up, but somewhere it was noted that there ... architect for Novartis' new campus. 12:30am: It's around this time I don't

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  interesting things that don't often happen to people (my latest story was a ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don’t ... at least we have a leg up on those fictional characters - we don't have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  or just REALLY love math, like an obsessive amount, don't take this ... one semester. If you don't need 6.100B (not many courses do) then you ... don't exactly hit the target, because you'll have gone on a great walk

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024