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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... , but I was still pretty good for making it to the top twenty. Good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... something for our client. We met with our client a couple times to try and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... ' December 9 Cami: A link to an MIT qualtrics form to sign up for free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about the future, but it's more important to be present in the now. You won ... afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... eager to cover for. Also, the ability to do other work makes the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI ... exactly why it’s important to know about depression, and how to live with or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ... promise this decision is not going to be as painful for as long as you think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  not knowing how to look for help or how to go about wrestling those ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be ... differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i ... , for saying yes to everything this summer. no single decision was bad ... . it was three years ago that i learned how to cry without sobbing. you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... ) Instructor who, after I received a lowest-in-class grade for a presentation ... -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  strategies for how to deal with it. Sometimes I don't know how to use a tool ... over it for not knowing how to utilize these tools from the start. I can ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014