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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... until around the second week of classes, life at MIT was so chill that it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... of the interview] Interviewer: [points at his French Fries] "Do you ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my ... most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  granddaughter of this girl I thought was really cute and our characters hugged at ... should be made as often as possible (of course not to imply that I have at ... entered 15 or 20 of these over the span of a year and won at least some

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers ... applicant, you think that MIT is “out of your league” because you looked at a ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  location would be a great change of scenery. I could see myself being at home ... decision process has at least given me a vague idea of what I don’t want to ... DAVE: there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... in, and are usually unlocked for this reason. Plenty of freshmen at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon, about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  wouldn't result in a scar, you're just scratching at the surface of the ... Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... ; at the time, it was basically a couple of text-only pages and not very

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three weeks, a group of seven students (from MIT undergrads to grad students to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015