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• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or ... on whose behalf you can send mail and of which you are the only member

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... 's not, I do have two quick pieces of advice I would like to share before I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  pursuit of some discoveries, which I hoped to make.” (For context, this is ... upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  media is unsatisfying and how to best address that dissatisfaction. or, to ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... or some kind of conflict, external or internal), and through this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or ... olympiads. However, access to these examinations generally depend on what is ... their time of entry to MIT. It is perhaps worth noting that the GIRs are

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... introspective, which is ultimately the most important part of this process ... the drawing board. Even if a story or experience is compelling on its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  how appreciative they are of our efforts. MIT’s mission is to use ... . Whether a student has a great college experience or not is really up to the ... number of advanced classes a student takes is never the reason why he or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... 'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  -existence." "What is the ultimate result of all action?" To which YISUN replied ... , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... -ish on a bunch of things rather than really well on one thing. and this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy ... past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  to many of the projector screens or external monitors on campus. You ... and more memory to work as they get more complex. This is why a lot of ... of salt and read up on online reviews to see if it holds up to what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  byproduct of language, or did language arise from music? "Music is auditory ... beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... bunch of bills to pay and I don’t really want to be a burden on them. I ... community of like-minded, cool people who will be your friends is going to be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something ... writing schedule forces me to keep writing, which is the only way I know to ... for my work, then? Or is it a different kind of need, one that goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make ... 's campus shuttle, which is late or maybe not even coming. Safe Ride is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  good to clarify...']digress.[/annotation] This was on one of the days ... resources to its students. There is a pressure to live up to its promise of ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  them. Exam grading, which I couldn’t make it to because of lecture, is ... tired of reading and go to yoga at Prana Power Yoga, which is a six ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... , or some other combination of good food 25) And since I'm struggling to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this ... to 6 boxes of storage in the dorm itself (usually in basements or suite ... before Reg Day, which is when you meet with your advisor to choose your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018