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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... like you sufficiently understand enzyme-DNA dynamics, you can move onto

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have much experience with dating altogether, and dating in college can be ... : “booty call”. Can be thought of as multiple hookups with a single person ... --they’ve turned into a “ghost”! Can also be used when simply referring to friends or

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to ... . Can you tell that I didn’t sleep much? I had already learned Freshman ... these lessons can be guideposts that allow you to learn, enjoy yourself

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... ="107414" /] Can learn more about that building here.   [carousel image1

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  ’re really into astronomy), but i feel like i didn’t get as much out of it as i ... didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... community. It can only produce a bunch of test scores and GPAs crammed into ... a diversity of skills, experiences, knowledge, background, who can all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  you get involved? CUP is just one way that MIT students can be involved ... limit.  For their fall and spring semester, first-year students can ... , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , and after a few days, I get an interview. A day or two after that, I get ... ways that we can hold events that show off our dorm and our culture ... include packing all of my stuff and getting home safely, but it does sit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a negative reflection on you that you can't always be running at 100%. Some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  small, and the scales weren’t very pronounced. Too much heat can distort ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  never gets easier, you just get stronger." Plus, I can easily pick up my ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... ="water-ballooned, anyone?"]any other painful form of water you can think of ... MIT experience can't really be understated. It's research at the top

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  around us, get out there, meet some new people, listen, learn, we can be ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... spend just as much (or more) time reading applications and making

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... being and fall down. you can't cheat sleep. it will find you and make you ... your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  delete it a new one gets sent out. When asked about how much sleep you ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... the way you came. Boston is miles away. This is much more than halfway

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... Pockets—pieces of Pockets can regenerate when they are ripped apart (like how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020