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• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  this post to complain into the void about how annoying applications are ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... I would slip into deep thought and realize how lucky I felt to be here

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  struggles in her life up to that point, and how through the hardest of times ... students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... of the struggles I’ve had related to sexual assault and how the same ... impossible to predict the future, no matter how many flowcharts you make

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  how to answer this came from the Yale Admissions Podcast, which is an excellent resource for essay writing. To paraphrase Episode 6: How did your ... that excite you and how transferring to MIT can continue the journey you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  differently as an undergrad General questions about how-to-college (especially ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to ... filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  any idea of how to do. And then you’ll spend 20 hours learning chemistry ... Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  colloquially, the T"]T[/annotation] works, and largely, how to ‘Boston!’  dear ... about.  As I went around from event to event, re-discovering how the ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  forth with them and we'd make a game plan about how to approach a ... “how does that make you feel?” at inopportune times; i want to find our ... you how I have gotten here—each of us must find our own routes to peace

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  . unfortunately, i don't have my own car here, but also want to see places around the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities ... taken, take currently, and plan to take again. home to work [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you're lucky, all the classes that you want to take might fall on the same two or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you ... they wouldn't be able to deny how much I belonged there, since my extreme ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... taught me how to code would somehow ease these feelings, quell them long ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... know about ytterbium How to impress your friends with homemade poi An overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  . I also know more things about myself now, like how I like my bed to be ... morning nor night), or how to sense when my social battery is gasping and ... relate to. I’m learning this year how to make tradeoffs and sacrifices

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  made me happier with how I'm wired, and I've grown to embrace my inner ... Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ’ll have some good guesses as to their personality, what they care about, how ... actually care about? i don’t have an answer yet, but the video how to cook ... ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  to boldly go…

  

  our showerhead broke     happy last week of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 11, 2016