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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  can do. That’s the whole point; the point is to know where your limits are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... Time Management lecture, I feel confident that I can get the most out of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later ... lean into the activities where I can naturally succeed. Cross-posted on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... other since freshman year and talk about getting old.  I can't exactly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  office. We obviously chatted about writing. At one point, he asked, “Do you have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is ... needs more pictures :)  It turns out, the “What are you passionate about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  -core temperature (you can tell I'm enjoying my biology class). If one of these ... MEET YOU!! WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHY ARE YOU HERE? WHO SENT YOU? WHAT ... you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work ... this club? Why am I doing… any of this??? tick I can’t get peace here. I ... , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  minutes and get more sleep? Even better. Getting Out of the MIT Bubble On a ... Roll (NYC), August   Showing Myself that I Can For one of the first times in my life, I felt like I could get better at something. I skated

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course ... head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... satellite service provider. Getting lost was practically impossible because

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get ... , but that's probably the most important rule. Networking can help you ... of time to talk you right then, but you can always follow up with them

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  can i get into MIT" My best advice to all of you is to read this website ... . ------------------------------------- Vihang wrote, "Is there any place where i can get these [ZigZag] videos in ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  can almost take it easy! But you can't just sit around waiting for June ... worrying for my future... will I get into a good school? Can I get a job? Can ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  , "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" (Randy Pausch ... s, you'll see what I mean soon!). On most weekdays, you can find me in ... Boston Pops started their concert. Along the esplanade, you can actually

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  site that Ben Jones created, where we could all check in and get to know ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary interests to you, and get in touch with people open to hanging out and ... fluent Spanish and is looking to practice English. You can then meet up on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  I'll tell you where I went, who I took a walk with, or what we talked ... 're comfortable with chapters, you can put several chapters together to make a book ... I'm working on is too large, I find that I can't get in the zone. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... stopped saying, “You can do everything you put your mind to!” and instead ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it ... and culture. You can read more about our process and the "match" at this ... application to more than 30,000 students across the country. If you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  you can see just how many people where there. It's incredible.) Enjoy ... So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys ... agreed but little did I know what I was getting myself into. Eight weeks

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  ’t exist *gasp*. The main thing isn’t “getting an A” (which you can ... womb can get an opportunity to do research. Here, passion replaces pomp ... which they got rich, of course. You hear all kinds of stories about MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011