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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  )" I don't know if any decisions hinge on this question, but I'll give it ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... up in Management Science. As for law school, I don't know much about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs), don't ask about your IQ, and SAT scores are so high school. Finally, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  become much more [annotation note="when i say urgent, i don’t mean urgent ... really, really don’t need the answers yet. Maybe this post provides a way ... and come back at a later time”. you can read this post even if you don’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  , therefore doing the bare minimum and using PNR to my full ability. Now, I don't ... prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... I don't eat or when I get really stressed or wound up, my hands start

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  , just breathe and you will float. BUT I DON’T. It’s not even that I’m nervous, I just… don’t float. I passed the class… so I checked it off but I ... don’t quite remember what we saw, but it was a nice change of pace to be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  are easy for a long time, and you don't walk around telling everyone ... -junkie-mouse-human hybrid in this scenario, after all). You don't know what to cut out first ... , and over time you don't feel like you're dying. Busy and dying are not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only ... writing blogs now. I don’t know if I just reread it that many times when I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  reminds me that formality is something we don’t actually have to follow when we don’t want to. So with that, I’m going to try my best to give you ... get accustomed. So basically don't stress but if you do stress, don't

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  in a triple on the [annotation note="please don’t remind me of how ... and those Things He’s Not Allowed To Be Doing. I don’t think he’s happy ... ![/caption] Yes, there have been moments where I have ALMOST dropped Edward, don’t

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I ... MEng, a graduate student—has returned to me feeling out of place. I don't really know what I'm doing; or, at least, I don't feel like I'm making

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the ... organized an apple picking trip and of course I had to go. I don’t even love ... ’ve been trying to get my butt outside if I’m feeling down. Even if I don’t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  for it. Get your physical MIT ID. You can get them at any kiosk. I don't ... laundry pile can grow into a monstrous one. That can be avoided.  Don’t be ... only happen once. Your time is precious, and if you don’t feel like going

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to ... , maybe these people don’t just absorb content faster or get through psets ... worked.” I don’t know if that’s true — how does this compare against my 5

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  of your major/that don’t have problemsets due every week is a good way ... classes I need to take to graduate. If I don’t take one this semester, then ... ’t the worst thing– I don’t mean to imply that it is. There are plenty of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... stems from being a visual learner, such that names people tell me don’t ... ’re taught safety basics — don’t grab things that might be hot, etc — we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  cut you off. Bikes are parked everywhere. People don’t lock them to ... involve a lot of sitting. I don’t know how my body would react to using the ... home after a night out. I don’t love metro commutes, but I understand the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  don't want to think about the answer. Oo nga pala, kung na sa'yo pa ang ... times, and here i've went… zero times? dambuhala. i don't actually know ... 's not as if i don't understand tagalog—that i can still do fine. but it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  retrospect, i care a lot about being productive, although i don't think of it like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like ... . WHYYYYYYYY. Ok salty rant is over. I don't totally hate IAP, it's just that ... turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  realization in this order. Tier 1: Maybe, I don’t know, let yourself cry? Maybe ... you read Tier 5 and got a little nervous, don’t worry: My hair looks ... long of it is that I don’t know if I can do what I want to do with my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020