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• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and ... work for 21F.701 (Spanish I), even though that really amounted to maybe

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... mentally equipped for about 4.5 classes a semester so I've been sticking to ... considered majoring in (sorry courses 15 and 22). Congrats for making it to the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• 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…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it ... vouch for you, but your application is your only real chance to speak to ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

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

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch ... might want to install Linux on your computer and start using it for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... for me to feel enough alarm to do anything about it. Sitting around all

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... ’t due to lack of interaction with actual black people. I know for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... shape wide-reaching policy and to advocate for undergraduates was a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on ... test, and I decided to stay for the night and hang out. The Hunt kickoff ... entire spice rack" in. Lillian baked cookies, enough for each of us to have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... . I chose to make high school quite difficult for myself. I took on more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018