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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  taken the time to teach you how to study? And separately, have you learned ... 't even have my license yet. But none of this has to do with my intelligence ... me feel like I should take the time to produce a good response! I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... support worker. But a microphone is a suprisingly handy thing to have – it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... . Sometimes I feel like I have so many interests and such little time to explore ... the way so we can have something to present to our coaches the next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  delivery was to have them taped up outside your door, once they arrived. I ... they would have to accept me. It wasn't easy, but I did it. Something ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  . you should have managed your time better so that you weren't still ... asked that question so many times to so many people and only now do i ... meetings that no longer apply to you. you add your permanent email address to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... instead four hours of hard-earned learning time. It means that if I have to ... understand now what it means to love myself. It looks like giving myself time

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to ... less time to organize.  So Spinning Arts convinced a bunch of ... of losing valuable time for writing.  Simultaneously, I was trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... to say, if I could go back in time to four years ago—I would try to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... lot of effort sometimes though! It means you mostly have to interact

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  season to save on commuting time. I actually have a pretty similar setup at ... night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  warmed her heart to have someone remember her during this turbulent time ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was ... for her perspective. Nikayah learned that MIT used to have a history of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me ... range of research conducted out there, and have gotten to know speakers as

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people ... Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... current students, because cruft generally have more free time to write games ... too much. Some random quotes and pictures that I don't have time to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... . [...] I supposed that queer people of the past must have found other ways to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  't immediately say yes, but rather asked if I can have time to think about it ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018