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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would ... , seconds before our song began - and suddenly wondered what the heck I was doing there. Before I could have a full-blown nervous meltdown, the lights

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  'd be a while before it'd be called Senior House in the course catalog. It ... then that undergraduates got a choice of what to take. In the second term ... programming? In retrospect, maybe I should have presented these as actual diffs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I figure that if I'm studying China I should really learn the language, too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  virtual stomping grounds; I've missed you a lot. I like what you've done ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also ... : every application was a chapter in the best story I have ever read. If you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Here is a list of what your Advisor can do for you, and what you should ... courses, recitation sessions, or checking when it's best to take a certain ... , it’s November 18. If you drop a class before this date, it will not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... spring. In particular, as I wrote about a year ago in a private blog: I ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... before about how I structure my reading into a block schedule, with intense

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  valuable and life changing experience than if I had stayed in a program ... different from mine will understand an applicant's context in a way I couldn ... attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ATV in a drafty loading dock.   3 weeks before final ... a shoddy way in front of 3300 people. I think the results are well ... times as possible.  I'm told that it's worked 60 times in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  sender's name before. In a daze, I slowly turned the book over, and read ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  email address, so I checked out the site. Turns out it's run by a ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  Airbnb we were staying in. I settle into the living room, picking a nice ... of a blur, which I guess is what happened during the 2020 Hunt as well ... creatively. I was drawn to the final task in the list—perform a lipsync

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  refused to obey my mind. The day before decisions came out, I had a full ... parents every day, I wish I'd stocked up before I left.)) In the end, I ... [/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... MIT people directory. 417 days later I had a very bad headache, so I ... grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  I unleash a blood curdling scream in the general direction of anyone ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015