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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... semester, student clubs were once again allowed to meet and run events in ... writing knowledge than I’d thought — my description of methods needed to be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fine. To those familiar with Wii MarioKart, I once drew this analogy ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that ... to your flag is critical. You need to advocate for yourself and access

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• 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 / Admissions

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

  

  explore in college. Topics, groups, events… You need to explore, but once ... ’s no reason that you need to take 10 years to learn them! I hope that ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  were days that I just couldn’t handle being there and I wanted to leave ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I ... . Exercise as much as possible. Doesn’t have to be much, just 10 minutes or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  much identical to the PE requirement today. Needed are 8 points of ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  transfer it to a different container while straining out the matter ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• 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 / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... enough mathematical capability to handle 18.01 and 18.02, they don't care ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  those things was a copy of Robert Fulghum's "All I Ever Really Needed to ... thinking about what I learned in college... All I Ever Really Needed to ... need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... , what does this entry have to do with froyo? Nothing really. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... wanted to go is terrifying. Worse yet, think how much more traumatic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  it comes to college applications than trying to do too much of stuff ... week before an exam you need to cram study for).   Channel Name ... course designed to help you learn everything you need to know for it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  's used to do parametric designs. But, where to start? First, you need ... don't need to have every single component. Spice Blends, S oregano ... , then transfer to a large sheet pan. When the oven is done preheating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... 't want to admit people just to have them fail out. But once students have ... from you than they themselves say they need. While I have no reason to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... , Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going To Need More Wine, and Dan Lyon's Disrupted ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in order to become an admissions blogger. You just need to prove somehow that ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... something that needs to be said: current students have biases. Whether we like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021