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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... already learned multivariable calc (even if they won't use it) is a little ... isn't completely blameless. MIT is a great place, but sometimes I think

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... is a brilliant place, but there are brilliant people there. There are ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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

  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

  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 / 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 / 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