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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... , and that we know how to have fun?” Kristine '14, completely disagreed ... the exact number of hours of sleep you need. You will learn how to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... lagging behind, you will quickly learn how to swim (don't worry, you just ... them during your time here. Learn how to work Stellar; have a heart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , but also how to approach the structure of the AP tests themselves ... of how to actually think about and mentally approach a problem on these ... ) Link: hmc.edu/admission/fast/how-to-apply/  Usually Takes Place: (2

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• 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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  this year's Hunt logistics, compare it to how a movie is developed and ... , do about the fact that our work are ephemeral? We look to how theater ... economy analysis of how media fandoms work. Acknowledgments Thanks to Ceri

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... taking at MIT (how many classes to take, how many activities you can be ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... particularly difficult problem sets that you have no idea how to start. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass. This is the only ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... more than ever before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every

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

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... tasks, and up to you on what timescale you will do these tasks, and how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  my heart reverted back to my bed. I had almost forgotten how to read at ... 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

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... attendance sheets every day of the year generally got them to knowing about how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... you're going to recruit people from (and how many), and how you're going ... factors. I'm still learning how to write up data analyses and say coherent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within ... comparing more sunny days to how well you fit with the people? It’s not even ... inherent uncertainty as to how the future will play out. No matter how much

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want ... First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  booth, handing passersby Nerf guns and teaching them how to shoot. Four ... come up with the advice when I need to. But if this was true, then how do people ever change? How do people learn to make decisions differently, if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013