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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  abruptly, too suddenly. The image of the Stata Center that you saw online and ... hours passed by with no signs of capture. I got some sleep at 7 am after ... and Boston. Online, I saw that image of 19-year-old Tsarnaev being

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... , less delicate version, especially online, the premise underlying the ... students who are not prepared to attend MIT. Period. No one benefits. Not MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  the lecture were always posted online. There, honestly, was no need for ... 's fine. Do you ever see such and such? No not really. I really like Yan ... lecture I had a one hour break with no classes. One hour is not a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer ... knob and your body is pressed against yet another door. There is no knob ... have no mouth but you must scream for ice cream Jake I. ‘16 It is the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  little. No biggie. Maybe I'll post about that some other time"]the class ... other. When we were online, the world shrank so much. I had my roommates ... "] What MIT online felt like (very approximate graph): I had some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I understand that people want answers and…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no whistles, no stress. So when I met with my school counselor and she expected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is ... meant no more having to lug buckets/backpacks/tote bags/suitcases (yes ... straight, with another 7 days of committee ahead (no - no breaks for weekends

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... intriguing email from Ostin ‘17, whose imagination knows no bounds: I couldn ... . Although they usually consume most of my total time, there are no surprises

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  's wrong with American university schedules, eh?" "No, what's wrong with ... things you probably have difficulty imagining your online life without ... come play with Zuck's puppy. No, that is not a euphemism. oh my god you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  no problem with polo shirts, and in fact own several) Every Monday ... the freshman seminar(s) of your choice through an online lottery over ... 'm still getting used to this "blogging routine" concept (although that's no

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  online submission date was November 1. Shortly before then, something ... paying for their supplies, no one speaks up and an awkward silence ensues ... their faces upon learning I have no cable television, cell phone, or air

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  ’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... down water, it was no doubt delicious. Now froyo: again, never had it in ... to life at large? 5) Online scheduling/sign-up applications are the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  careless stunt with no expectation of admittance as he didn’t want his parent ... doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much ... Confidential is an online forum where parents and students discuss college

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

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

  

  others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... is not guaranteed. UROP students have to submit an online application ... off-campus job, no one's working 10-20 hours a week at the desk. This is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  unrelatable. It's certainly no 50 Things, which you should definitely read if ... say no. There are hundreds of activities, hundreds of friend groups that ... collaborative pset party late into the night. No strategy is objectively better

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  program entirely online, through a mix of discord and zoom. surprisingly, it ... ’s national informatics olympiad, the noi. we’re running training online ... getting it ready. no, it’s not all work, if anything i’ve been doing can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... people showed up to this online forum. During my time serving on a ... didn’t have many concerns."]online forum[/annotation] for any

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends ... freshmen! The freshmen life group has already started doing online meetings ... past, where people of any or no faith can gather to talk about the big

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024