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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  sitting in a classroom, but you’d be doing a ton of that "other" kind of ... are as a person, and what you were put on this earth to do. It’s a fact ... CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  ? Did you do a realistic self-assessment? Did you view the decision as a ... tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also ... possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  to do in Cali. In other words, I had to find a job.... On the eve of x ... campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  certainly a valid question, as some colleges do track this type of information ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was ... second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning ... ’m on a completely different path than I was last January. Most of you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... head held high. tick I’m a failure. I’m doing so much. And, in doing far ... help with math homework? Do you have a favorite fruit? Is your high

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  wanted so badly to just do all the things! But a lot of times, this would ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... spend the rest of my life doing it; MIT is a pretty great place to be if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  't even a good incentive to do it, then frankly, I don't know what is. For ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  desks facing the windows so they have a nice view while they're doing work ... It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture from top.roommate?i have few questions- 1.how many students(UG) share a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and ... graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  classes I observe do a lot of work in small groups, and both teachers often ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... smarter time management. Personally, I do my work with a digital stylus on ... need to do a proof and you need to really prove it, LaTeX it. Otherwise

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... a long, tedious process that I wasn't a part of since I had class from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them ... ="Independent Activities Period, a short term during January where students mostly do, well ... I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of heraldry was underway. This story begins on November 24, when a group of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... seemed, in my head, like the school itself had a brain, and was doing the ... being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  't really be a hacker -- I can only admire what my students do. What is ... sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway, a few weeks ago Professor Uricchio told us we would be having a guest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  your application as a PDF. You should do this so you can see how we' ... 't cool. Things happen. For example, you might get a validation error ... do this, and we'll see them when we read your application. Your

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012