MIT students share how exploring their interests, engaging in co-curricular activities, and reflecting on their values helped them clarify their paths and find more joy in their daily routines.
Utilizing Strategies
MIT students share the strategies they have used to cope with difficult situations. While there are many routes to overcoming challenges and no single strategy will work for everyone, listening to others’ strategies might help you reframe your own struggles and cope more easily.
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Learning more effectively, setting priorities, and exploring academic interests
Learning more effectively, setting priorities, and exploring academic interests
Recognizing unhelpful ways of thinking and gaining new perspectives
Building healthy habits, supportive relationships, and joy
Cultivating awareness of thoughts and emotions and focusing on the present
Reaching out to others to gain perspective and access support
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Read more: Study Strategies
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Study Strategies
View all clips: Study StrategiesHear how MIT students have fine tuned problem solving and note taking strategies and have utilized office hours when struggling with academic performance.
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Read more: Setting Goals and Prioritizing
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Setting Goals and Prioritizing
View all clips: Setting Goals and PrioritizingMIT students talk about setting goals and prioritizing their time to deal with challenges such as test anxiety, work overload, and making progress on their academic work.