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

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... thermodynamics in a single night. Of course, no one is actually like that. In

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  show how much excess fat one can usually trim from a typical essay. Not ... a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... thinking about how I would approach these essays. Although nothing here is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... people. A comment you will hear quite a bit is “yeah my high school had

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in ... ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  is comparatively much less prepared than a student who has. But there ... way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... : “The shortest distance between two points is reliably a straight line. If ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... makes sense?), and is a great segue to my last procrastination tip, which is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... before about how I structure my reading into a block schedule, with intense

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  pretty much covered most of those bases already. But there are a few big ... ! You know, things like that. Change is a good thing. As a freshman, I ... for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... well. That, after all, is the meaning of having a community. Much ... many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  being frosh (first sem is hard!) and a challenging math class. So I spent ... spontaneous but fun. Throwing a good party is really exhilarating and in general ... turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  is how much we rely on each other, and how much we can rely on each ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... say, I enjoyed the film marginally better. The book is a bit dry, and

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a ... MIT or is there now: give yourself a break to LIVE. Take stretch

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  a measure of how depressed someone is. Thinking about things ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long ... much longer than your average article (which is somewhere around 600 ... about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how ... other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm is pretty uniform in culture (e.g. Maseeh). Explore as much as ... than, say, Maseeh, which is at a higher pricing tier but will likely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018