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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... and card on my desk for me to find. I felt loved. Another family

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... on homework anymore - psets are essential for learning concepts and ... :pdf" (without the quotes) limits results to PDF files.  For example: hyperloop

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right ... to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... 's not like you're going to run out of opportunities to take free-for ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  people are doing. Fair enough. I asked for some advice on what to do now ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... 've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... on the TV? That is where Tech shuttle drops students off for class, for ... own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  might want to install Linux on your computer and start using it for ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... . Other times I kept something on board for way too long and then wondered

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... website, for example) outside of reading season to reserve our cognitive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  (already a year out of high school) came over on Pi Day to hang out for a bit ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  doing tedious tasks without much mentorship/potential for moving on to ... have to be on a meal plan, milk it for all it’s worth. Meal plans are ... -253-1212 and ask for the Dean on Call. Someone will talk to you and help you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for ... on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which ... if you somehow manage to miss out on all of those opportunities, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a ... the Peano axioms. Someone wants to know if this will be on the test. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011