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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  help improve someone's life. I've always felt that most hackathons are ... design a "hands-free" walker which would help him use his trunk muscles ... amazing client and his parents, who were so willing to help us along the way

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  -in-a-lifetime experiences. It will help put your five-year plan (which I am sure lots of you have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever ... a traditional study abroad program, but the constant travel has helped

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• 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 ... visualizing her incredible badassitude, this picture should help. Here are just ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  careless or cruel. Treat those around you with kindness. Help people ... something that helps distinguish you from other applications - something that ... because you think they will help you get into MIT (or Harvard, or Cal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  MIT helped me take care of that, too. Finding an on-campus job can be a ... 've helped out in admissions. And I wasn't even looking for these jobs--I just ... help. Basically, it's hard just to walk down the street at MIT without

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... do with distractions. Planning my time like this helps me be more ... to help me learn my own. I shed a few tears at times, but managed to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... -morning exercise, particularly repeatedly lifting heavy things, helps me keep the ... extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  's currently working on a video game. Spring 2009 to Spring 2012: Ben Y. '12 ... series of games and painted the room number on the door using a numeral system from those games." A few years later, Joie shares that she "painted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  current state of the field.     Figure 1: Schematic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  state of mind, all like, “Okay, this is what’s happening, p-sets and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

   – so many prefrosh, game nights, tbh just a lot of laughter Free Ice

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students don't realize this, but they are being used as the unit of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation ... extremely helpful and understanding and imploring people to reach out if they need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  played board games! Surely that's healthy, heck, even more than I could ask ... what little spontaneity I have left I use up on deciding what video game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here ... responsibility as undergraduates to uplift and help one another. MIT is already ... .. Congratulations again. Know that current students are always so excited to help and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately ... a UROP on the DCP team at the Media Lab has really helped (those two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as ... better idea of my overarching goals. Like I mentioned, I want to help

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015