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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as ... on long walks. It’s beautiful, refreshing, and, most importantly, gives ... long time, since my obsession with learning how to properly throw cards

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  this year's Hunt logistics, compare it to how a movie is developed and ... how the 2020 Hunt started off with a wedding, when it was about an ... should've won."]Maus,[/annotation] shows how the narrative aspects give it

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

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

  

  matters. It’s how you embrace life. It’s how you treat other people. It’s ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... resources out there. Whether it be costs, school funding, or even awareness of ... start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  were there for me. I don’t know how effective it was at the time, but for ... !” the voice had whispered. A long, low whistle followed it. It appeared to ... how Uranus rotates on it's side, rather than vertically like all the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Wii with your hard-earned cash and then taking the Wii and eating it ... -derive it on an exam, no matter how many theorems you give me. Once I had ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  complete a task such as a problem set or a test or a long trip. It can ... walks can really help, but be careful if it is late at night. A long walk ... how it tastes because eating playdough is a little icky. I really like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is ... messed up during a panic attack and how it feels like they last forever ... strategies for how to deal with it. Sometimes I don't know how to use a tool

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  time. (Despite the fact that usually I can barely see the top.) How it looked right after I finished it: How it looks 99% of the time: (But ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  will be pretty long! It'll be an explanation of the class, my experiences ... hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... problems regarding Facebook 2-Factor Authentication. It does mean that they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as ... you resilient; it teaches you how to accurately assess obstacles, and it ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  point now, isn't it? Nobody knows how they got the police car on the dome ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through ... Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  show, and it blew. my. mind. I was amazed at how a children’s show could ... ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  at home, I’m typing with a coat on. It does not feel good. If I was ... from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he ... department of science". It still strikes me how recent biology is compared to ... years, I think. How long before both subjects become General Institute

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  how cool it was because it’s a class that I and many other people take ... anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... year, but I am still learning how to get better at it—figuring out what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017