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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... school that makes somebody smile, makes them wonder how in the world this ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running ... thinking about how I can’t wait to be done, I stress over crunching time and ... want to do is watch more episodes of True Blood? How quickly can I shower

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality ... at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about time and how I’ve been spending it. Happiness and how people think about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  decisions can be made. They can answer basic questions about “how do I choose ... likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• 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

  

  , driving and biking in the city can suck and be dangerous. Though it seems ... professors when you’re struggling. At the very least they can point you in the ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  . She also gained some insight on how these organizations work in Boston ... together can easily meet up. In order to be more accommodating, the chapter ... sisters that came before them. Kenneth admires how ceremonies can tie

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . But how can I, without even knowing you, tell you frameworks that you ... interested in the topic area of my work Feeling like I can do good through ... in my cohort. But do I think that I can do it, and moreover, enjoy it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021