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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me, you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... benefit of being able to stay for an entire year, or more, depending on your ... to the cost of housing on campus. But, if you're smart, you can find

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so ... you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time ... their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  do psets handed to you on a plate, but rather on how well you apply ... said, I am pretty hosed right now and need to get to work on the four ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... to some other large open clearing, but he did. He turned the drone on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlMoNs4qlM&list=PL2D2F4E4B08214BC2&index=31&ab_channel=HowTo

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to ... was going to be on a panel at SDCC, which she then found) over Tumblr

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that you won't be surprised or shocked when you get here--you're on your ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... , but it really depends on who you're speaking with). Second, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  tell you what to base your worth in, but try not to center it on grades ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you ... get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  insights on how to go forth and study a range of different subjects. Plus ... /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... yours – leave it! Find ways to go explore and to find out how other ... you have explored it’s time to focus in. Master your major, and focus on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... joined Design/Build/Fly, learning how to solder, fabricate airplanes, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014