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• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  time. (Despite the fact that usually I can barely see the top.) How it ... autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then ... this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  processes. It's incredible how MIT supports all this in the first place, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... longa. Can I say how awesome these names are?"]the most important ones

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in ... gives me screenshots of how my MIT experience could go. I can see myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink ... over to their website and vote for us! We can do it!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... 't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three-bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007