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  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when you ask us about these things. This is really not the best way to ... life, and when I try to think of my future in a way that doesn't involve ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  though that is awesome, I am going to be sooo disapointed if I am rejected ... have enough gender diversity, and not be a good place to be a college ... indeed be a fun place to attend college. As for the interview, I'll have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... through this week. If that's not enough to make you just DIE to be an aero ... be stiff. We were intimidated by the other teams' looks of ruthless

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  longest I’ve spent listening to one audiobook is “The Source,” by James ... listening to these books for the 7th time. I should also not be listening to ... about the plot. I think I really just listen to audiobooks the way many

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  yet. They do not need to be in by midnight. We are processing thousands ... us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well ... panicking right now, odds are that you don't need to be and that we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  course 8 seems to be the way to achieve that. Right now, this is the best ... to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... heart-rate monitor to track additional variables. By comparing and ... Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'm actually going to be an associate advisor for 2.A35, Biomimetic Principles ... classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... own, so this was going to be one interesting adventure. I had been down

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you ... to hear. Also, being genuine seems way less stressful. Good luck! ... important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  . The best way to describe to you the way I feel about math now is through ... physics (which, by the way, I didn't receive official intstruction on until ... .03. But at the same time, it's easy to feel way less prepared. Just the fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  figure out a way to dispense helmets reliably and one at a time. The first ... out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... streak of a week is getting old). MIT is truly an incredible place to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  monument, listening to "Things Fall Apart" by ayokay on repeat to the ... better. I would take my final, one way or the other, and that would be the ... , and sometimes there really isn't a way to look at a situation that can

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  food. On my way back to reconvene with Gosha, I stopped by a cafe and was ... ’s also a fantastic way to develop taste. And by that, I mean figure out ... ,[annotation note='fyi i ran this blog by him to make sure it’s all good']so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  , though. And in a way, it was a mixed blessing to not be hired by the EMS ... take as electives no matter what my major turns out to be. I figured this ... age babies learn to look at social interactions the way we do: when they

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  fact, squares are so used to being completed by me that nowadays they ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... suddenly know everything that's going to be on the chemistry quiz on Tuesday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... section on Page 6 where he's like, “Charges can be positive or negative. By

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... " (by the way, it's pset, not PSET. pset looks so much nicer. actually ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019