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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually ... professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Optimal Procrastination Technique:  How to trick yourself into thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... , who loved and supported me and told me that if I wanted to get out, I ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  this really how I want to spend the rest of my life? Ultimately, it was ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound ... , where I learned how to be intentional with my time, choosing just exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  through space and time toward to meet me. I think about how this year ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... but fell short of getting this case to work. I’ve also tried a different ... if I could get something to work in the 4ish days before the deadline

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... seconds. I have listened people call problems I don’t know how to solve as ... how lonely I felt, or how I had no motivation to do things, or why my

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... about how I wanted to be like Kaylee and explore space with a crew that ... spelling and grammar stuff. I could totally write a much less sappy ‘how to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... 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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to ... classes but I couldn’t bring myself to start it. How the scariest part was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you’d like to cry with me, feel free - I’ll bring tissues. The East Campus ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017