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Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS
, applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you -
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How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them
a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement -
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Note To Self Please don't forget this.
Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my -
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Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me
school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents The most important thing is to figure out why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing -
Blog / About Decisions
To the Deferred I feel your pain.
at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for -
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Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning
I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without -
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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
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How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.
womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize -
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The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about -
Blog / About Decisions
To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!
might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance -
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How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.
this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very -
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A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot -
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Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire
come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this -
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how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.
So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT -
