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

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live

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

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... 14.01 Microeconomics or 24.00 Problems of Philosophy. You need to take ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... , and then learn Google’s version of those languages. I got to learn their ... code, polished websites, sophisticated projects. On mine: a spatter of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  to take them . . . but they force you to take MIT versions of these ... of my stress is self-imposed, it's me telling myself to do well ... every day to remind you, you will forget to eat and subsequently die of

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... writing knowledge than I’d thought — my description of methods needed to be ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  ! Curious? There are two key steps to for this process to work. 1) Read all of the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... , you have to understand that it’s important to read beyond just all of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make ... drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... been referring to Autotutor and Family: A Review of Seventeen Years of ... investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... , my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to ... like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  outside of that (of course, she still forces me to be a bit more well ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my best friends walk down Killian Court and out of my day-to-day life. All

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of ... other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... . All of this is to say that, if scores were all we cared about, our ... likely to come to the minds of people. In short, it lends itself to group

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... . Luckily TextWrangler was able to resuscitate the text of the file sans ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014