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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  ’s try this a different way.” I pulled out three coins. “How many is this ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... clan is his third clan. …I think? Ponder that for a while. --- My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  in MIT that night. I was going to miss a connecting flight, figured I ... .PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do ... haunting me in a much more real way than that, and it was in thinking that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  have a feeling that the scariest dragons that you and I will face in our ... was doing that again my senior year. Then I just gave a funny quote ... , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face

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

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... . (Professor Rabbat, I enjoyed the class, but four essays plus a final is too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... my "a day in the life". It's something I chose to do because I want to ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door ... , tell them I am trying and doing things differently and really putting in effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... “do we like each other.” Think of your interviews like a date. Is that ... . Tasty and healthy. There is a farmer’s market in Stata on Tuesdays that is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ? Don’t stay in a relationship that is giving you more stress than comfort ... ladder. Maybe I’ll do a master’s on the side to check my pulse? In my free ... in November, with some awesome roommates (one of them is a baker! I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... notebooks that I used in high school to learn French and Korean, the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a ... , that's a tough one. But we've also written a lot about figuring out how ... sure the class is actually interesting in practice. Seriously. Do

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  the Hall was self-reinforcing. I assume that process is largely still in ... ://eastcamp.us/culture. I highly recommend that you jump around posts—everything is in ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024