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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  like I do when I'm snowboarding. You might not be as quick at learning J ... middle school, but I figured that if Johnny Tsunami could do it, then it ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked ... . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... ). Community got submerged. I don't recommend doing that, but it did teach me my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do ... best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  the fall Career Fair Week, the office let students book quick ... stopped by for less than an hour and quickly left, after an enormous buildup ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I ... stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  you may have at MIT that involve hacks. And so with that, a quick primer on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into ... smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  tests), so just learn how to solve them the quick way. Do a few practice ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do ... man, later that night. We rush too quickly from Jesus' death to Jesus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  skip over the next section, but I thought I'd do a quick lesson for those ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... itself now?” Senior: “No.” Me: “So what do we have to do?” Senior: “Divide

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... habit, but I do think it is a compulsion, which I am uneasy about. So, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... 't seem as terrible anymore. When I told my mom that we planned on doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn’t have any such requirement. When I asked why he was doing it, he said it ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day ... bus. And along the route, when I'm not doing my best to avoid double

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... have run a quick game, and then there should’ve been Meet the Bloggers ... Admissions and MIT students quickly put together in the span of a month. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... figured out quickly; others were difficult and painful to learn. I ... application processes – this is about the worst thing you can do when applying

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time ... college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be ... 't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  there worth it? Am I doing a good job of being a good person, of being a ... while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... finals—so all-in-all, I was happy. Senior week went by quickly. There were

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022