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

  

  above you. You’re hungry. Danny B.D. ‘15 You need to pee. You enter the ... . You have fifteen unread messages. You read them, not because you need to ... are a ghost. You now realize you don’t need to sleep. You are already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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 ... you might need to work up from the bottom but if it seems really dead ... learn is yours to decide. Take your estimate of how much time you think

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  to still benefit from a class that was not easy to transfer to remote ... up liking the class so much I went on to take 5.13!     5.13: Organic ... the material and adapts to their needs. 6.832 caters to several

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... that I would end up where I wanted and needed to be, and that she would ... attempting to burn down the kitchen cook. I grew closer to my family. I grew

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... , most people do not need other people to understand that they themselves are special. When I meet people who do need me to understand exactly who

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... of time to relax.  Once in second grade, I came back home in tears and

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... it, and only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the fellows came to the conclusion that the best thing was to burn it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... once a week to talk about our progress and our deliverables. We could were given a budget of $100 to order parts needed for our project. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  tell you who was going to be admitted to what schools, you wouldn’t need ... this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... , you don’t need to read it first, but it might help you to understand ... inherent uncertainty as to how the future will play out. No matter how much

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  kitchen and burning my nostrils—the event organizers had managed to order ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  's schedule, and EthanZ once told me that he always used to block off 3-4 hour ... cases 5PM-6PM: answer email, do stuff that needs to be done around the ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to just slip away once official business was over, or who couldn ... tired. There is an inescapable lack of energy that characterizes my day-to ... engage a population that may not want or have the energy to engage with us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  14.01 Microeconomics or 24.00 Problems of Philosophy. You need to take ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  character of the humidification, depending as it does so much upon the ... outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... surprised to find the gilt from the State House Dome transferred some night to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  talk to every single sorority at least once. It was admittedly pretty ... preparation and decoration that needed to be done to make sure the PNMs felt ... .  Here is a link to more information that has everything you need to know

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024