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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how much I would've liked this, I would've joined earlier, or, if I knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  putting bad special effects on them. I would also usually try to find ways ... “wahhhsahhhhp” and I would laugh at them for their antics. One day after school he ... enemies and wore bandages for pants. On Minecraft I would stay up till 5 a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... ridiculously high IQs. I’m not sure that it would be good if genetic engineering

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... . How’s 7:00 tonight? Trash, trash, trash. Yeah, well, I think you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  highlighted how incompetent I was. It hit me hard. I had worked extremely hard ... big difference. When I greet someone and ask how their day is, instead ... class would solve all of my problems; they kindly suggested that I seek

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ask the seniors I knew what they were taking, and would often be ... their requirements done. I thought that most people would want to take a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  until I asked my mom how she was doing multiple months later. I didn ... on and on about how they did so much for me growing up. But frankly I ... about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... through space and time toward to meet me. I think about how this year's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... years, I think. How long before both subjects become General Institute ... history-wise than World War I. Consider, for example, Building 20. It would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no 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

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

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... , no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... . And I totally get your "poet" vs "peasant" analogy... people would talk

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the ... . Today I feel how you feel. I don't know if I can still pass the class with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... to know that I would see them again in the fall. I felt happy that ... : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ...   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... friends that they met over CPW!! I wish I met more people over cpw :( N

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  would be like, how to solve hard problems, and how to care for myself, I ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... thinking. Afeefah: Recently, I've been struggling with understanding how to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... never a question of whether I would write it or not. The true update on my ... that I would never have reached otherwise. It is the worst, most soul

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014