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• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  within your area of study. Or you may not. If you don’t, maybe they don’t ... you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... every 1-2 weeks; and even when I don’t, the presence of the city around us

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I ... : I don't bake as much bread these days as I did a couple years ago ... me). Food scale: I don't weigh most of the food that I eat, but I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  . Okay with tippy tapping at my keyboard to work on products that don't ... insignificant, just like the 8 billion other people out there? I don't know how to cope with being mediocre. I don't know how to cope with being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  don't have any exams, project classes contribute to midterm season too ... at the semester's midpoint. Student groups likely don't run retreats or ... problem set classes don't have four exams. Most have two: a midterm and a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  don't know, i kind of like organic chemistry, and i like the professor ... , but at the same time i really don't want to drop it. i feel like i'm in ... of the sunk cost fallacy, but like, i've made it this far! i don't want

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  kid, you typically don't have to go out of your way to ask for things ... it alone. you don't have to go through things alone, and you're not ... ...oven/stove/possibly microwave type thing. i don't know, i wasn't really looking that closely. all

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  January. We don't have regular classes, only voluntary self ... don't build up in the room. You turn on the shielding gas, check the ... 'll burn holes you don't yet know how to fix — but not too quickly, or else

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the center: "activities where you create things." I don't know. There ... exploring a different field, which was biomedical engineering. I don’t know ... the content, I don't think I'll fit into the field, mainly for the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race ... don't understand, and get made fun of. so i didn't try. i hang out ... about my experiences. and honestly i don't even know what "my experiences

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  proving oneself. I don't think of myself as particularly fit, but it is ... hand, you'll never know if you can if you don't try."]shoulder through a ... admit: I don't think of myself as particularly smart, but it is comforting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  just...gone. And I don't know where it went. And it terrifies me. The ... late. I don't know if it's because of my Fans & Fan Culture class or ... . And so when I don't reach it, and inevitably fall, it stings even more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... of applications. I don't know what you guys wrote about, but I wrote ... don't think about enough. And to personally attack myself, thinking that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... the case that things are fine as long as I don't start thinking about ... things forever". I don't fully understand why, but I do these things anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... flailing. Some people call Course 6's sellouts. I don't really think they are ... . But now, to put it simply: I don't care. I don't care if I'm "bad" at it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  mistakes, the staff always ensured that the students don't break the rules; I ... three ovens, as well as a fridge for each class year. Don't rush to buy ... !). If you don’t want to wait until the weekend, get an MBTA pass and use

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know ... ." Most classes in general don't accept late work, but some have a policy

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... we don’t have to worry about water for crop irrigation. But, there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  don’t have time to watch hour-long episodes of cooking. That’s totally ... you can. These recipes are normally quick to make, and don’t require ... there’s leftover food that they just don’t want. This “food” can range

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the ... don’t factor into your GPA. For more details, see this page on Grading ... cooler or more relevant classes If you don’t have to take intro chemistry

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... , whether it be going to a party where I don’t know many people, or refusing ... it. During the season, all my worries fall away. I don’t think about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016