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• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... settling?"]just being happy with where you’re at. [/annotation] On the other ... your own worst critic, and that was painfully true for this process. Yet

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  others and destroys your lucidity. Instead I have been trying to, mostly ... the beauty of the things you are graced with in your friendships, relationships, etc… and then choose what deserves a place in your life. I think my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  backups help you recover after a bad migration. Confidence comes when you're certain that your changes are correct, and it comes when you have easy ways ... whole mess getting ready to be sad. It's like, you know when you're going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  . What are your thoughts on the math department at MIT? Jonathan: It ... many different interests! What are your favorite things about the math ... ! What are your least favorite things about the math department at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... ; Friction with Contractor Your video showed MacG's courtyard.  The first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... college essays, and maybe you’re right, but I really like writing! College ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... school💔) Part 20: Impossible Challenge - Pack Your Whole Life Away in 24 ... systems and how you want to change it. You’re probably stressed right now

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  million ways to solve the same problem, and your imagination and creativity is more of a superpower than your ability to measure things with a ... rejection is hiding something deeper – maybe you’re like me, and your hate for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  familiarity with the material is around the same as yours, and then it takes ... each step of your problem-solving process when you don’t know yet whether ... one else to bear witness to your failures—and to avoid having to point

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life? is it your work or personal relationships or something else? p: i ... goodwill, and how, if you’re a smart young person working on problems that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  [annotation note="Pass/No Record, an MIT policy where, for your first semester of your freshman year, Cs and above are shown as a Pass on your ... can do it, you’re an academic weapon” or “push through, you have the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  upperclassmen have told me, if you’re not barely passing your classes, you’re not ... ." "when you're watching that mtg play, forget about the pset due tomorrow ... ?" "keep trying?" "no! go watch the play, you did promise your friends. it

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

   rises over the west parallel. Yours truly, [annotation note="My exchange ... friends. Yours truly, Aaannah Day 3: putzen fine dining I was once again ... spaghetti having been showcased in previous Hall Feeds' menus. Yours truly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  these words: “Vide cor tuum” – “Behold your heart.” And when he had been ... well. Finally, as is customary, attached below is a recipe for your ... here’s mine – try modifying it and making your own unique version! Feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  be a [annotation note="if you're wondering about this right now, the ... interviewers available in your area."]waste of time?”[/annotation] There are so ... checking your spam inbox for an interview request is NOT one of them.  So

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly ... weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... your drawers forever. People always joke out of making quilts or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  generally safe. There was the trigger, of course, where you press your finger in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your ... . Close one eye, bring the pistol up to your vision, align the sights with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ? Microsoft?"]different colors:[/annotation] Pick some ordering of your ... ; though you can keep doing this until you’ve used up all your vectors. The boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to pull out the pertinent reactions from your memory, congratulations, you ... trail your way back to the beginning. It makes the solution significantly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  your eggs in one basket.” It’s totally fine and even great if you are ... , as with most things involving this time of high school. But you're almost finished, so really try your best to end the quarter, semester, term

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017