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  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  finding people who will support me. How bad can it be.   It really took me ... place, I am sending lots of hugs and care. It does get better, learning ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . Probably like how macaroni and cheese would be if it were made by an ... , but on the off chance that something does go wrong (as it so often does ... eyelids before I drifted off, it was actually only 10 hours and 4 minutes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this great new cell phone I got, because I'm really excited about it. Well, I ... people my number because I had given it out so infrequently in the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where the heart is." Was home the physical space, or was it the friends that ... without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve ... find ways to creep back. it's funny how the triggers manifest themselves ... a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A negative decision does not negate your abilities, accomplishments, and dreams. It doesn't mean you weren’t “good enough” for MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the bus is long gone, but that’s not quite right, is it? I’m the one ... next autumn. But it also reminded me that she had met her fiancé months ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... time. The best way I can describe it is like speed-walking when you’re late. It’s about as fast as you can go without running, and you don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and ... learn how to make these. MIT does not offer classes that teach background ... different degrees! Art classes MIT does not offer: It may have been evident

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  it, which features to emphasize, how to answer questions, etc. Soon it ... us how it worked. This was weird. At MIT, ok, maybe somebody would ask ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  long time for me to admit that, because at MIT, the work really does ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... your face. It’s a course where how much you work is directly proportional

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  passed on anymore. it makes me think about how fragile oral history is ... . one of the things i liked about the meeting was how it was focused on ... with holding up ec now. it worries me to think about how much work it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... helps! Yan It does help, Yan. It does help. It helps me confirm what I had ... FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  others fall further behind? Does growth help the poor? Does foreign aid help? What can we do about corruption? Should we leave it all to markets? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... them. They ask me about classes and how hard it is and what MIT is like ... much for me. This is how I felt when I dropped 6.009. I tried it, I saw

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... . It does feel right to look in the mirror to find my hair the color of ... about my hair without it affecting my self-worth. We’ll see how that goes.

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  is how I prefer to do it. Go through all of the notes and summarize ... though the supervisors provide reports where they predict how you'll do on ... -CAD/Architecture Practicals - Similar to further java, two long term labs with a similar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  : Jonathan, May 7th @ Big Cold River." It turns out that one of the ... community, but does not live there."]social members[/annotation] of our wing ... sense when you think about it."]or so it goes,[/annotation] is that this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is what we did with bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  really happen, but we want to treat it as if it is, because that’s how, in ... in our life and how it helped us, and it hits us square in the emotions ... must have some level of genuine thought behind it. That’s how being a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023