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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  do, all the things that I achieve. As a trained engineer, I had been ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... process that a chemist has given you already, look at it, and say "Hmm, HOW ... ." "Get a UROP!" "I need some money." "Get a UROP!" "My boyfriend is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... enjoyable. In the end, you might figure that is it too overwhelming or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... that I have available is a job in finance. I’d be at the company I ... how I could do good for the world. It is a choice between two different

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day ... something that looks like: This is a bit complicated, so I’ll just draw the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  past or in stormy weather. I hate this bridge, I really do. It’s a ... confusing"]Boston[/annotation] is a relatively small city, I have spent a lot ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... wtf? why do you have that? why are you keeping it?" I was like, listen ... in this closet just a couple miles away. After the loft, I learned my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... in learning to make my own earrings is that I get to express myself and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole ... freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... a little awkward too, but one thing I’ve learned is that we should not ... letting that awkwardness be a barrier. Which is why I wanted to write this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... the other panelists nod in agreement. Venturing off-campus is a good way

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I ... , these students had a presence in MIT’s hallways. In the same way that I ... firestorm, but a similar event called firehose that happens in cpw, which is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... ) "I felt that I grew a lot from the adversity present in this situation ... . Something I like to do when I have to write an essay is that I'll actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  , I am not saying that looks in general do not affect how people treat ... different day.) 15. How to do a bunch of puzzles I dabble in puzzling, and I ... has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015