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

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... freshman year? Mollie on freshman advising Chris's guide to the GIR's: 'don

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  's important to find someone whose style benefits you the most, so you can get ... notes, people who are organized and have a clear structure to their hour ... important to other people; it's just a matter of what matters to you and how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... math, we'd most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. HA, usually taking ... 't times that we had to leave office hours to go to the bathroom just to cry

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  €“ this guy has a lot of experience) “it's a lot more important to show that ... lecture, or visiting during office hours. Chat to your professor about his ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  says on the bag (this can range from 10 minutes to 1 hour, depending on ... have time, chill this mixture for half hour. If not, just go straight to ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ’d look up a coffee shop and head there to write. After some hours ... took an hour. After that I’d head to some parking lot, where I would cook ... , a hellish 8-hour bus ride from Tucson."]LAX[/annotation] to Madrid

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  me if I wanted a walking buddy; we spent hours going from dorm to dorm ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  . That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  lecture and went to the library for 3 hours I could read the chapter out of ... important at MIT and a lot of students here struggle with it. The only way to ... to have failed. Not letting something get to you is important at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... instead four hours of hard-earned learning time. It means that if I have to ... with and still acknowledge how important they are to me. I don’t feel

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  's important that you understand the range of environments available to MIT ... important to me than partying all the time in college; some people here don ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , check the hour, and cry. Figure out how to feed myself at regular times ... ashamed."]office hours,[/annotation] I checked my phone to see an email from ... ."][/annotation] was happening for the next hour, and to drop by for snacks and advice

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

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  , and directly relevant to society. I figured that the importance of ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... ! *blah blah thoughts on RadioAstron that are not really important to this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• 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.

  

  racing from the shock. Professor Drela gave me the full hour to take it ... on difficulties. I go to office hours whenever I can, because sometimes ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  leader, and the church was our life. My family twelve to fifteen hours in ... , there were two important requirements: the first was to be baptized, and ... exhausted spending hours upon hours each week pretending to be a believer, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , wouldn’t it take about an hour of effort to prepare for an hour-long class ... , everywhere, were really important to help students and teachers get from ... an hour or so, I left morning check-in and headed to the first class I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... feel like everything else is more important. Your body needs energy to ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  borrowed a car and drove me to the airport two hours later. I learned how to ... to kill goats without spilling any blood. You know, the important stuff ... was applying to college, the single most important thing was for me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context. First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020