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  love or lust

  

  be doing, and i'm grateful for that. i watched a lot of bojack ... ’t something you would do if money weren’t an issue. this is certainly a campus ... a lot of pressure to find my passion, as though doing work i loved and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  ’t scheduled 21A.01 yet, but I will, uh, definitely do that as soon as possible ... online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is ... I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  idea what you want to do at MIT and (2) is a manageable schedule with ... , and TAing. After doing well in a class or if you're already qualified ... couple extracurriculars, and a job. That's a lot. How do you balance all of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... that this happened quite a while ago. My days have been filled with RA ... twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  time to find myself. I've felt a certain kind of pressure to do something ... school, it's felt like I've been on a fixed trajectory. I do well in middle ... do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side ... Over this past weekend, many prefroshies asked me a very interesting question - and I believe that this warrants a more drawn-out response from me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , we've had a lot more time to do this because we always have to do like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically ... what they do and how they cause disease, and 3) a mouse neurobiology lab ... . Grad school has been treating me well. I've been doing mostly the same

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... ~written last friday about last friday~ Today was a really happy day ... . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  could just do a clean reinstall of Windows without losing anything. But ... equipped for the work I wanted to do on it, become a daily annoyance almost ... don't do a ton of intensive computation on my computer. If I need to do

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  interviewer had a more favorable sense of the interview than you did. Rarely do ... It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  bored by the monotony (and you probably will), do something new. Start a ... ? Do computers play a big part in life in general at MIT, or just for ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  interviews has changed (though Chris' other observations remain accurate). A ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf carelessly strewn along a sidewalk, the squirrels anxiously scuttering about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007