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• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... to my peers, they told me I needed time-management skills and to work ... . I was already devoting so much time to just studying, and yet everyone

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  -essays may not represent you in all your 1080p HD glory. 2. You don't need to ... .) 3. You don't need to use the essays to prove that you have overcome ... way about your own writing? Once again, the purpose of the essays is to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT’s Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  open yourself up to the opportunity of being seen as an idiot. And, much ... , of my friends and I going and asking the questions we needed to ask to ... . I was able to exist in this space in a way that I needed to. In a way

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  needed to go, turned around, walked around searching as if I were looking ... estate too. There's not much rhyme or reason to building names off of main ... generally get to where you want to be without too much trouble. So study hard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  that I am entirely sure what that does to your body other than that it ... to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about ... relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="Dylan, thankfully, does speak Mandarin, but I think I’m going to live by my pinyin and ... [/annotation] and asked if we were going to make [annotation note="Because Winnie ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  need others to help them. Having to fend for myself for the last two ... told the House Manager that the branch needed to be cut down and the ... as I can. After all, I did apply to MIT once. Oh, wait. That was what

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  technically allowed to use them, but they aren't needed and add confusion and ... have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  Out 2, Mean Girls, A Family Affair Movies I still need to watch: My Old ... It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  know they would be happy to offer advice but do not feel that you need to ... still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  lucky to call them my friends. As much as we create for our guests, who ... have left. Sophia has said most of what you need to know, so here is the ... myself. There’s been a lot to think about. I actually don’t have much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  once or twice a week Guidelines “The only dream worth having is to ... present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of ... , reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  would be a punny answer to the question “What does EC need to help keep ... me if I need it, teach me if I want to learn, and always have my back ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  , we need a way to heat a low pressure gas of tritium and deuterium to ... to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... here and feel like they need to stick with a single UROP so they can get

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  presentation of the material. I did need to lecture for some of the time, which is my least favorite way to teach, but I needed to teach students basic ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to ... college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... sense of spatial planning.[/annotation] As much as I don't want to admit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... -generated writing doesn’t bother me, and if somebody were to create a story generated

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... whatnot. So leaving was bittersweet. To commemorate the day, I thought I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006