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  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  first organize information and then problem solve/do examples. If I try to ... . When I feel overwhelmed when studying (all the time) it is best to first ... I should do first. Making a plan calms me down and allows me to focus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  two major problems: first, you have to write a proposal, and second, the ... trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the ... to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate ... week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that have joined together like a Megazord to become the new Ben. I don't recall much about the process, but I seem to remember it as going something

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have ... line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... down Boylston towards Skullhouse. All was going well - I was nearly to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I had already uploaded these pictures to my webspace, so now you have to look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  your first year at MIT, or you'll be considered to be in "non ... first semester was because I had no idea what I wanted to major in. Well ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  handle, to a lopsided cylinder I made back in the first class. [caption id ... to make a teeny espresso cup or ring dish :). Do the first few pulls ... , and glazed our pieces. They actually get fired twice: first, to go from

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... attends the first week of class and decides whether to add or drop certain ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  Transitioning from first to second semester has actually been pretty ... schedule. Compared to first semester, I now have more classes, more homework ... in these first few weeks. Today was my first midterm of second

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... fortunate enough to get my first choice!     The big reveal: gaze ... hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  Flowers. (Remember I promised to write about him forever ago? Yeah.) First ... all day to tell me, because she knew I was involved in FIRST in high ... sign saying so taped to the front desk, so that it's the first thing you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs ... next? A: First, you should create a MyMIT account. Then you should ... not need to complete the Part 2 (essays, activities, awards) - we will

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016