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  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  comparing more sunny days to how well you fit with the people? It’s not even ... ) as something to maximize your utility over, because that’s not how it ... returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... out emails asking students to not speak against halloween costumes that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ... to not let them throw you, to keep going, just like you did in this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... screening before you were definitively admitted to MIT; we said "not only can ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  load and commitments to make themselves feel that they are not lagging ... to listen; they did not brush me off by telling me that dropping a ... friend, to walk out of your dorm room now and genuinely ask how the person

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in committee by feeling which muscles are tight, and how tight they are. I am not ... also exhaust the metacognitive functions that allow you to assess how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... gravity canal of self-destruction. Not wanting to prove my sister right ... to you on this one.) This is absolutely not to say that I think that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... to save that part before I closed out), but I’ve learned how to right ... ’ve learned other skills, too, like how to do proper user need analysis to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from ... appropriately titled, "How to Deal with the Challenges of Studying Abroad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  ). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to ... is to not let your relationship interfere with your college experience. If you don't want to date anyone else, that's totally fine! What's not

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... took to classes. Probably not comprehensive, but these are the ones I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  this really how I want to spend the rest of my life? Ultimately, it was ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound ... truly be kind, to be intentionally kind and a good friend? How does one go

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... , is "well, so release the data on everything else!" To which I ask: how ... have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  was determined to not be embedded into this blog post, but you can ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... program. This program teaches middle- and high-school students how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of coursework at MIT (maybe it's not, I don't know, I'm running on empty here...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... . 4) Do not be afraid to go forward - in solving integrals. . This one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  start to notice your absence and wonder what’s happened to you. After not ... ="i did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  list of their stats, and demand to know how they could possibly have been ... there are infinite ways to demonstrate them. Obviously, there's not some ... 's not what activities you do (or how many activities you do), but what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... you spent high school doing not what you thought you had to do to get ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010