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• 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.

  

  hours before needing to wake up again and turn in the problem set that ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... more important than BE NICE. I have noticed that if you are nice to ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  challenging projects, but I think it's also important to be gutsy enough to ... professors are mostly there to assist and guide, not to tell us what to do ... Alimagham was great at showing diverse perspectives, and it's so important to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  's very important to me, and like everyone, when I'm stressed or nervous, it ... back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  's important from the beginning to become a familiar friendly face among the ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... class to study for another, never stayed up for hours and hours to squeeze

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... professors. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... was difficult to tell how many hours exactly, we turned to go back. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... most important change while you're here. You're used to being right ... guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... writing come easily for you? If you take five hours to write 500 words, this will be a painful job for you. It's important to post regularly. Do you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  attacks, unable to move for hours lying on the floor. Some are still ... Lauren hadn’t spent hours and hours taking walks with me, listening to me ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  afford to spend a couple of hours here and there doing something cultural ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  guide you through the laborious process: 6:19pm: I arrive at the Tech ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... the admissions officers and tell them who you are, what’s important to ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  shape. It’s 1 hour until instructors will be coming by to examine ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model ... ;Which means that there are less than 24 hours to go and we still don't have

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

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004