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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... need to find a better balance, something that I thought I had learned to ... perspective instead of that one? What does this color bring to the table over

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You ... area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... the extra marginal decisions that came with being poor, like needing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... hop the fence and bark at other non-numbered dogs. Dog 4 needs to be ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  self when everyone wants to reduce you just to this disease?" "What does ... -tailed kids you once sat next to in 8.02 suddenly have suits and job interviews ... think, and it's all of our lives that we need to think of as writers, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... 'm now down from six to five--and my life feels much more manageable. I ... was not ready to commit to this nonconformity. I needed to see more of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  -Stokes equation, while the girl next to you does quantum physics and somebody else ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... evolved need to consume nutritious minerals? In either case, the spacial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  I once burned out doing work for my student groups. Instead, I like to ... 'll never run again, there's no need to think about maintenance. But if you want to start an event that'll run every year, you need to think about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I ... listening to Taylor Swift and burning strawberries into our guitar the night ... and was waitlisted. Obviously, I was later admitted, much to my surprise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... you need to."  That's all common sense, but it was surprising how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  no one to help, much less care. But she did. Luke was grunting in pain ... :)[/annotation] Okay, I need to pick my high school for next year, [annotation note ... it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  above you. You’re hungry. Danny B.D. ‘15 You need to pee. You enter the ... . You have fifteen unread messages. You read them, not because you need to ... are a ghost. You now realize you don’t need to sleep. You are already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  doing tedious tasks without much mentorship/potential for moving on to ... you might need to work up from the bottom but if it seems really dead ... learn is yours to decide. Take your estimate of how much time you think

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  to still benefit from a class that was not easy to transfer to remote ... up liking the class so much I went on to take 5.13!     5.13: Organic ... the material and adapts to their needs. 6.832 caters to several

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... that I would end up where I wanted and needed to be, and that she would ... attempting to burn down the kitchen cook. I grew closer to my family. I grew

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... of time to relax.  Once in second grade, I came back home in tears and

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021