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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating ... activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get ... new areas of my post-grad life that I’m looking forward to help me get

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... how expensive it is, and buy that juice you're holding anyways. Get a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  why I was choosing to take certain classes, and I was starting to get ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... (GIRs) are one exception to this. personally, I think there is still

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  how they manipulated me into believing I have to get everyone’s approval ... prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from ... habits and systems I've nurtured since Freshmen year: how to take notes ... whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... threatens our creativity by anchoring us to the past. I'm not sure I buy this ... scholar. I'm going to put [annotation note='CMS is Comparative Media Studies

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... investigate or how long I would need to trace down different routes. My advisor ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... students getting into big schools because I have to realize discussion about ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... who knows how many companies I've applied to that haven't even taken the ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... months to even get acclimated to a company like that, so I don’t see myself ... for any engineer, especially since I get to break things (for SCIENCE. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... 's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement ... back-to-back classes do you have, and how far are they from each other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... any money off this, I just wanted to see this happen. I didn't want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023