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• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  description. i’ve written about this idea before in the context of meeting new ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... upon your new favorite spot.  Hold onto your 101 Things To Do Before You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  for any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in ... ’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress ... ! Even if you have no new grades to report, you should still complete the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... workaholic has to get up at 6 AM to be in lab by 7 tomorrow morning! ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... . How can a college class bring me to tears just at mentioning it? Shame

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  and congratulations to our new provost - Professor Chris Kaiser. You can ... .D ’87 represent!). I’m going to miss him, although our new lecturer is ... him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  the AC in my car dies when it gets too hot. I always pause to appreciate ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... , they were designed with the new phenomenon of cars in mind. Copenhagen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  . introduce my new friends to my old friends. if my friends are friends with me ... schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... good at in high school, and you definitely don’t need to know what you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... 've been more meaningful in perhaps intangible ways. I've been applying to ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... experience in Photoshop (thank you @ my old Tumblr for teaching me how to make ... , or I just want to sit in all day and cry because of how much there is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  like Twitch. Something to also keep in mind is if there are even new ... in mind as you tackle your question? Break down. Now get to ... to this. Example Question Q: Estimate the number of taxis in New York

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  , in which every friday, one of the twitch kitchen chefs shows us how to ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020