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• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... figure out how to think about feelings and communication more clearly, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

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

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  situation in Germany. So, since we didn't quite get to the haircut unit in ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend   fight me if my past self could talk to me We thrash in ... far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge ... the sky in fury wanting to do everything and nothing all at once.  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that ... , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to ... Logs of the Muses, but I'm sure to think of something I missed in this

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  picture getting married to him. So we revelled in the teenage dream that is ... getting married to that person, having kids with that person, getting old ... didn’t really want to talk to. And real in-person interactions only

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely clean. Just one more thing to add to how busy I already am, rebuilding my computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  .[/annotation]although i should be trying to get back to sleep, instead i start thinking about all the stuff i have to do to get ready to leave for the summer. as ... , scanned, below. (please keep in mind: it wasn't light enough to actually see

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015