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• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown ... to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  --it is the only African country that was never colonized--and now, that ... , the ones that had stopped working and failed and a couple that seemed to ... when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  unnecessary to actually write the report anyway, and your problem is solved ... understands that the range is symmetrical. Also, try to log transform your data ... , since it took a lot of effort and time to truly master the most productive

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  doing that, I just sat there staring at the slips of paper and trying to ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... me to the next puzzle (Jebby and Aiden got a different puzzle). My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... the opportunity to do anything that you were comfortable with, up to and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which is true, and they're pretty easy to pack, but I know people who brought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... four years and all the things that college had given me and I was at a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a ... .01, and 6.02 in the new curriculum. There are a lot of students that don ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to push myself anywhere else I went, and there’s a decent chance that ... is. (See here and here for other relevant reading.) There is a lot to ... that the only way to make it through here is by working with and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and experiments, and make sure the paper is completed for submission. To uphold the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  to continue to progress, and knowing the way forward is a jagged line ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you ... you to reflect on it if you've ever felt the same way. Let's say that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  . the other is a lot of struggling and gathering the courage to ask ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... borrowed a car and drove me to the airport two hours later. I learned how to start a dance party anywhere, any time. I fell in love and drove to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... mentioned, is a part of Galactic's culture (and to some extent floorpi's). The ... . So there has to be something more to it. And I think a good reason is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’s problems aren’t really real in the same way that my problems are real, and ... moved to blogging on AoPS, and it was the same thing. I would blog about ... like I’m watching a glitch in the matrix. The fact that my identity is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious ... about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a ... to the UA. 11:22pm: It's that time of the night when someone is asked

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  for CPW last year) is a photographer for The Tech and was forced to hang ... speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and ... response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... numbers to the west of that line are odd, and the building numbers to the ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... that President Hockfield was a big fan of the blogs and wanted to take ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014