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• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle it or b) absolutely have to. But even with (b), I don't recommend it ... class: [embed]https://youtu.be/s1CDgNTB5tc[/embed] Please don't roast me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Just don't write one about yourself because people will be able to tell ... " when they ask. Maybe because you don't want to rub it in peoples' faces, maybe because you don't want to explain that it is not, in fact, the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  ="Not in the admissions process per se. We don't expect you to talk about ... experience is a part of the real world, and the things you learn (or don't), invent (or don't), and do (or don't) in college affect it. The good news

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  .  People are good, I really do believe that. When you don’t know what to do, remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... help. I mean it.  2. Don’t take things too seriously When I felt my knee

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  -wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the ... 's quiet and it smells a little funny. I don't feel very different. If I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  accept the way things are. Don’t get me wrong, our environments are ... environments we grow in, we take it for granted. We don’t take advantage of our ... , I don’t entirely agree anymore. Our environments and experiences in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... those spontaneous and fun moments that you know you don’t want to forget ... gains speed that you don’t, and you try to catch up to them with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  here, I still don't feel like I've learned everything I've wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  said, “hm, I don’t know.” It’s interesting, I’ve heard people use that ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  embarrassing because I usually don't start missing class until week 4 or 5 of the ... , I know). This is the class website; don't worry if you don't understand any of the words because I don't, either!! 18.702 is Algebra II. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  go all out and don’t sleep or work as much as I probably should ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... if everyone around you is teaching things that you don’t understand

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don’t ... musicians here on campus that you don’t even have to take more than five steps ... can definitely say there are times where you just don’t have the time to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Rachel D. ‘16.) MIT hackers don’t look like this: Around here, the word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  exchange that I had a lot of fun participating in. I don't remember where I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  publications and 39 patents, but don't let that intimidate you. This is an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  or from motion sickness, or both, I don't know. I was certainly ... . "Did you feel that?" "Yes." "Is that…supposed to happen?" "I don't think ... Shuttle Driver: Slow down, don't worry - I'm not leaving yet! Me: Actually

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for ... something. Don't be afraid to actively take contrary positions to create more discussion, because that leads to a better result. Don't use

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... when I don't - and when my brain refuses to get any more work done at a given time, in spite of some deadline coming up, I don't fight the feeling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012