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  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 ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... hours dedicated to grinding out reports for this course, I have finally

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  intense because we talked for hours straight, but I met some people during ... home for my 4 years at MIT. It was a cool experience starting classes the very [annotation note="First years are already on campus for orientation

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people ... . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty ... semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  . MIT is always looking for students-athletes. Almost 20 percent of ... contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... letters" or do "signings," nor do our coaches have discretionary "slots
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against ... UROP and would rather build toys than wind farms was not chosen for a ... speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped, then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of suicide and mental health at mit. my undergraduate thesis for comparative

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers. For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6 ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... from as far away as 2-4 hours walking for the market. Still more people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015