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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... . L, put my trumpet to my mouth, do my thing until the rest of the band ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  we chose to admit included 15% of those who scored within the 750 ... accretion of the the sediment which dropped to the bottom of the decisions ... . The decision is about everything else. The response to this, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... telling you to shut your parents or counselors out of the process entirely ... things and the act of someone else rewriting your essay for you to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... be kind to yourself and others. MIT is probably going to be one of the ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... parts of myself, with "parts of myself" referring to the things that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... church over the span of a week. To be a full-fledged member of the church

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... , since it took a lot of effort and time to truly master the most productive ... learning how to problem-solve, to learning how to communicate the results of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  the chance to meet a lot of students and answer their questions about ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... of the prestigious UniPenn (!). To begin, I feel like the resources the

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... to yours; your research is standing on the backs of giants ... to know the kinds of research people are doing in your field, and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020