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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . Not everyone will agree with or like you. This is a reality of life ... experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... – don’t use others as a crutch or you won’t learn to figure things out on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  kinds of things, and it is better for us to be aware of them, rather than ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... is the spiritual successor to on success, meaning, and time. Obviously

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  her it was for a school project (which is true!!).  Back to Table of ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... was and that is the majority of his time on Avatar. Focus on three

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  wide variety of conversions to help you compress, convert, or merge your ... graph equations in 2D or 3D to get a better understanding of how different ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -state. Two exams per week - on top of psets and labs - is now just average. And ... here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... whether you got a 740 or an 800 on the math portion of the SAT, or whether ... are "There are no activities or combinations of activities which by

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Technical Skills At MIT (or in school in general), it can be easy to focus on ... reason yourself out of scrapes or tests you forgot to study for, or if you ... can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  lounge or something, which was still better than sleeping in the Logan. I ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... turned out to be partly true, partly false. I think a better explanation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  Truckee River, which bears the name of our next stop. It is just beautiful ... concerned, it is not particularly better than most of its competitors—but it ... stuck in my head on this portion of the journey is pristine. So much of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  magnetic strip swipes and pin pad punches led to this array of stuff. Or ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too ... . Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like ... all. No, really. What you're going to do is take some reaction or some ... died, because I used to watch reruns of the 1980's Ripley's Believe It Or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... students of certain races in order to redress historic or contemporary

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to ... Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the ... sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... is easy to go on autopilot and just follow where the currents lead you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... homework again and study for exams or work on projects. Some of the best

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

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ... Harvard, or why you should not go to Caltech. The simple answer is just that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  relationships (or lack thereof) to measure your self-worth. Focus on understanding ... the company of others later. 20) Social media is a strange space to ... tattoos or drawings if you don't want to commit to a permanent piece of art

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  software, like Big Ball of Mud, Worse is Better, or The Cathedral and the ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... dancing, teaching, and puzzles fun, which is why I'm part of all these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023