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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off-campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit

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

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  would encounter there. High school was amazing and all, but I was ready to ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  eventually, all projects have to come to an end; I’ll start a new project over ... ; After BeaverCube, I’m not entirely sure what I’ll end up working on. There ... of life, I ended up becoming myself, and I like who I’ve become.

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  classwork. I know that most of you seniors have probably given up on high ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  (caps totally necessary, I've seen the student end of freak out phone ... more NOT going to lecture than I would have if I attended. I ended up ... receiving end of "parenting" so I do know what's useful on our end and what

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3 ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I’ll end up. The advice to deal with this usually goes something like ... ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... as a high school student, I really, really felt like the bloggers just

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  "hey, I still got it right in the end, who cares if it took 2 hours ... Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped ... , and fell asleep. Friday evening I went to visit my high school friend ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... ? I have like, four more years before it becomes socially unacceptable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my horror, that the HASS-D lottery ended yesterday. Also, that HASS-D's aren

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... disadvantage in the locomotion department. When I had to run the mile in high ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of ... in March, to just take a moment and think. I remember high school ... It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... . When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018