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  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . He teaches these classes. I may be able to one day learn how to write fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... . College changed me to be the person I always was. It also revealed just how

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  of a college experience, and I was also intensely familiar with how to ... according to plan. How did you manage the situation? Let’s say, for the sake ... managed to get an A on the final exam, taken later. I wrote about how I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... always famous alumni. How did he become this year's speaker? It sounds ... he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  Metropolis Makerspace! I learned how to 3D print and lasercut something for the ... were beautiful. What if I also learned how to make things that were ... enjoy? Later during East Campus’s REX fort construction, I learned how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  ) real analysis seeks to, in addition to other pedagogical goals, teach how one proves that calculus works, and ii) P and Q are meant to just be ... expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  are, what you want, and how you hope to get there. Now I realize the ... , consistent, and accurate we embody and how we can learn to work with our own ... MIT community — I remember how my heart lurched forward wanting this to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time ... basic signals analysis, how to build filters, and analyzing things in the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... [sic] red. My job will be a teacher. I will go to meetings to learn how ... remember how to write in cursive anymore, and don't know how I managed it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people ... decisions, to how organizations make decisions, and all the way to how it ... with the times it’s open, how it chooses its prices, why you seem to face

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me ... 't know how to say goodbye to them. finals week came and went with a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  . Naturally, when people starting asking me about how many classes I had to take/how ... 's surprise and curiosity to how it worked. The rules are as follows: 4-year ... played before, being forced to start with "this is how you hit a ball" was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  the ongoing challenges that we are trying to tackle is how to “summarize ... our own icon detector. The second is figuring out how to classify icons ... description. We were really pleasantly surprised to see how many high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially ... come to MIT?and...how stressful does it get on an average day? thanks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  realize now that knowing how to explain why one's cause is worth supporting ... bring FIRST to Europe, and about how our team brought students together ... what to do or how to react, having just lost very narrowly in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  taste of how much time my classes demanded. I could expect to expend ... have to see how far I can go. Diagrams. Arrows. Fruitless ideas. Crossed ... ’m still learning how to build effective study habits, how to manage my time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  senior spring, but that just means I have more time to consider how important my relationships are to me, and how much I'll miss them. the ... able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  hours of work needed to make the difference. how many hours of work, daily, does it take to pay my rent? how many minutes of work does it take to pay ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022