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  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... . Discovery is finding out that I needed to draft a study plan for my courses at ... to the speed of light. 32. Discovery is learning that you will burn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  -approval, and it offers good coverage if you need to go outside the network. It ... Extended Plan. Or, if you are on just the Basic Plan, they need to send your ... . Going through the bills much later, I had a chance to Google-check the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  whether or not to wash my hair at night (believe it or not, I’ve once ... on this one. I have really bad travel luck, and I need to plan for ... emergencies and flashlight needs. Don’t wait for things to be taken away to be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  you must discard down to seven. six. i didn't do much this iap and that ... productive i refer to when i say "i need to be productive"; that kind of just ... kind of person who does this to the exclusion of other things, to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  basics of color opponency To understand this, you will need a color wheel ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... little gatekeeper: it controls how much of its respective color is able to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... , because they don't like the same things i do, or because they need to go ... muted so i don't get much notifications, but it does enable behavior like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  our faculty once observed to me, “the first year at MIT is often a ... not rest on a rigorous foundation in mathematics, and we need to be sure ... shows students also need to do well in high school and have a strong match

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... years. Although much the renovation was sub-optimal, I'm really happy to ... , workouts, and games? Does their path encourage peer-to-peer interaction

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  done this a couple times). We need each other to survive at MIT. 4. Exams ... really, really good at burning.     (if we're going to ... season 5? I still need to catch up....)

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  wanted to be. My lola was compassionate and loving, sacrificing so much of her time and energy to care for her grandkids. She would wake up early ... much love it felt like it was going to pop right out of my chest. When I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it ... into the IAP time. This way, MIT does its best to cater to the previous ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  making friends in general, I’d say that it does require effort. You have to ... because you enjoy sharing a human connection, that you want to give as much ... to me once, "there's probably no way we'd have met. Isn't that weird

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to ... experience I’ve had and want to have. I transferred to the Orange Line to eat ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  request a transfer to EC? I even trudged across Mass Ave in a torrential ... mitadmissions.org]. Any images we bloggers post here need to be hosted in our ... FTP is (file transfer protocol) and I think I might have used it once

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... pretty weirdly located to me. Even though I know campus much better now. I ... , and waited the needed 40 minutes to print. In the meantime, we learned

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was ... 's Thursday the 18th, so I'm going to take the time to submerge myself into ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43

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

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  answer that one burning question you've all been holding back: how to foil ... of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... was admitted to MIT with much less than perfect SAT scores. They were in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ? if i don’t have the energy to help someone, if i put my own needs first ... ’t have the energy to do things. i missed going to an hmmt social event ... . sunday night, i had enough energy to go to a holiday party our floor had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019