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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door, making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... ). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of mine who lives in Boston is a social worker, and my parents got in ... whole is now engaged in a dialogue about mental health and wellness more ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice ... cyber-storage. and this also feels right, in a way, like there is a ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary, a l√° 30 Days) – so this is essentially a dream come true. This

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... may seem. To the left is a representative picture from Sophomore Year ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  assessments. This process is itself exhausting, but it's exhausting in a way ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  affect students on potentially magnitudes greater. How about “Zeus is a ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• 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 ... and so much harder to spend quite as much time staring at a screen. In ... well. That, after all, is the meaning of having a community. Much

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... below. There is a good chance that everyone else will appreciate your

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person ... of reminded me of being a stage manager, where your role is pretty much ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the truth, in a Zeno's Paradox sort of way. Part of the MIT culture is ... , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... , here it is in all its glory – a pen plotter, drawing machine, robot ... stroke path is, like, a whole other project in and of itself. All things

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective process, is what an applicant makes of the ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015