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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  methods, but David and Ali taught me how to actually approach research ... ."]trainers[/annotation] and performers and generally people who knew how to Do Things ... and to quickly dump their knowledge on how the club/performances should

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... forward again to see that you didn't. Laugh at how silly it all was. Wonder ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture ... classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... really, really know yourself, to the point that if you keep reading over

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was ... have to learn how to cope with them. You have to take tiny steps, every

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  how we do it in our specific professional context.']admitted students to ... how great our students are — but it may not be as salient to members of ... attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... 's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  ensuing shock and deformation. Learning how to truly take care of and be ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  to have such diverse interests—humanities teachers who taught me how to ... led me to befriend our janitor and learn how to use power tools and ... about how I wanted to be like Kaylee and explore space with a crew that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  how people socialize. I ask questions, as if I was going to learn ... most natural thing to do. It feels all the more real, right now, how ... how they manipulated me into believing I have to get everyone’s approval

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Optimal Procrastination Technique:  How to trick yourself into ... to Paint for any finishing touches. See how fun it is to manipulate

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The ... 't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... ' Guild game and how I got dragged to a square dance class by a hallmate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023