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  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  night and I called up my friend who lived 15 minutes away from me on foot ... gives your freshman fall on Pass/No Record so you can explore these limits ... word you should hold as Truth! But this is just some stuff I picked up on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  exploring every corner of a room before moving on, and I enjoy that a lot ... why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is ... analytic things). Tristan S. '23: I'm a 2023 graduate of the math and music

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  helps you reflect on the year and plan the next one." I attempted it last ... skating. I hiked. I lived on my own. I wrote comic book scripts and ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  mental bets on whether or not I succeed. So, out of spite, these are my ... , and I lived in Simmons, so I had to cross a tower and go down two floors ... all my nice shirts and pants in the dryer and walk away. When I lived at

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes ... !"]matrix multiplication does (usually) depend on the order of multiplication

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  their lives figured out, like they are on some clear track—the Ph ... : [audio mp3="https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023 ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  . having rediscovered my love for reading, I decided to embark on the ... more than once, anyways. that's why I can reflect on my year of music ... studying or psetting, since it's hard to focus on what you're hearing if you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  , when mit let people live on campus again. this was back in covid times ... board (and video) games together. cj wasn't in our pod, but since i lived on floorpi anyways, i interacted with cj's pod a lot, with my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  ="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and ... applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and ... Impala was the best live performance i've ever seen, and Billie Eilish ... two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... commented on my own snowflake, so I did. Cut me some slack, I was 9. If you ... ="https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/flake.webm" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] The animation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life!!,” I’ve finally settled on an academic path that I’ll likely stick with

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

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday ... the opening event on Friday. Josephine is a chemical engineer, Rick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  favorite musicals, and our conductor was one of my good friends, who lives on ... makes the "everything else" of our lives mundane and unimportant, in a way ... , measurable impact on the world is slim to none, but each of us must have a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  from the observation tower.[/caption]   The things we saw back on ... ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that ... comments below."]“floating restaurant”[/annotation] (i.e. restaurant on a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an ... amount based on employment through the school year and on expected savings ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who ... philosophy. And I won’t deny that progress can sometimes creep up on you. I am ... requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... , exercising more, being more on top of things, etc. But I think I did the best I ... focuses on the control part; its precursor, 2.003 Dynamics and Control I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024