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• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  needs to get into Burton-Conner. 3. Restock paper in the dorm printer ... , thanks anyway!" Sam's Mom had taught me well not to get into bicycle taxis ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... applying to the job. The application gets posted every year around the middle ... starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  to people all the time who get burned out in classes because it just ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  ’t want to be defined by how many things can go wrong in my life ... psychiatrist staring at me in disbelief and telling me to get new priorities as I ... had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how ... interact. Now, in many fields you need to learn something deeply, but often

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in admissions. To tell the truth, I didn’t know one could have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  , and to get in touch with the admissions office. Good luck! Anonymous ... get there in the fall. Did I read that you get to drive the ambulance as ... know when you'll be getting a call. So there's a lot to keep in mind, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  he was sometimes struggling to get some medieval poem in arcane english ... and is going to their open house to see how it will measure up to MIT in ... pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in communications. The problem is, I’m starting to think that getting to this point

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... who had begun to specialize in different subtopics. At the end, these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  college’” “Lol no way, why work super hard to get in there when I could just ... , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in ... science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020