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

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  locked (I never bothered looking into it earlier). The School of ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  of bridges, had to design theoretical bridges, and will continue to do ... weirdly, some of Harvard’s campus. The bridge is fine by design, looks nice ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  business by employing kids from school or some new shoe design you are trying ... place of toxic masculinity, ramped homophobia, and a too cool for school ... school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , there's a lot of similar ideas in designing websites and designing ... talks about the philosophy of designing Java. It's a great talk, and I ... influenced how I designed Hydrant, a rewrite of Firehose. Firehose is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... meeting with lots of students and families on these trips!"]High Schools ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  it’ll be a great break from the stress of school. But also don ... care provider (PCP) at the start of school, BEFORE you actually need any ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ="i flirted with the idea of staying for grad school for a while, but ultimately ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... we all know what happened in March 😬 So all of that beautiful wood sat in my closet, in my room in East Campus, while I did zoom school from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... 're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012