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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... reason, I do feel like sometimes saying "oh, yeah, I go to MIT" sounds

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... , most people do not need other people to understand that they themselves

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... -step authentication enabled on my Google account (extra security sounded good at the time!), I wouldn't be able to do that without retrieving a verification

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... project and what I need to do over the next week or so. 6:35 -- I arrive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  Silicon Valley, I do need to admit that my educational trajectory to the MIT ... 't know what to do with our lives" is a common mantra among my high school ... of specializing to the extent that I would only be able to do one thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9 ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often ... , or using quick-fabrication methods like laser cutting) can be better ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol ... do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• 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 ... yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time ... isn't as good, and there is more fog and kale. And I still do go back

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way ... 's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... are things we can do to mitigate cognitive exhaustion: I've blogged

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto ... , any messages or friendly words or jokes or anything. We all really do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... mentored juniors, got selected as Google Student Ambassador and met many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Do you have prior experience that you want to build upon, or put to use in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... all do research! I know people who got UROPs by sticking around after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... a creative writing class before have quickly transformed the twice ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009