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  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  to find new methods to approach problems." 21L.003 (as taught by Ina ... were a great way to get back into watching theater productions." 6 ... in course 6/9 related things I'd highly recommend it, to get a taste of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... traffic around them and were trying to get the interest of freshmen who hadn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... ’ll sometimes just get random flashbacks to absolutely random things that have ... to capitalize on that as much as I can. I would love to get good enough

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing ... , hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  wanted to get more work experience, and those things were true, but i also ... strong the urge is to open emails or look at your phone or get up and take ... some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... the leagues restarted, I began working to get ahead of the initial ... is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . Froshies get taken around to all of MIT's fraternities (there's 27 of them ... - includes the traditional free lobster and steak dinners) and - if you get to ... also maintains blogs on MIT Admissions!). But most of all, we get to work

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  % worth the effort to try to get to know your roommate(s). But my freshman ... those hang outs, I could feel the loneliness getting to me. A lot. The ... just to get through classes, and when everyone around you is doing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  painting, the hardest part was accumulating the activation energy to get ... ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... few leftover undergrad requirements. I still plan to graduate with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she decided to come back behind desk and get them with me and she TOTALLY saw ... Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... professor. This is a class I’m particularly glad to get because I tried taking

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... close to one another and to such neighbors, researchers in the $175 ... opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  amount of light that gets through it First, we need to describe what a ... take turns throwing a Frisbee at the fence, trying to get it to pass ... sure that the light doesn't rotate at all, and is therefore unable to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave MIT as happy, well-adjusted people. That's not to say that MIT is never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT ... grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... particularly important to me. I am SO excited that I get to take these classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  you should already know about if you're an incoming frosh. You get to ... and Boston. - There's the Presidents' Convocation, where you get to ... science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006