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The mail, and more
've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... have taken 2 more SAT IIs. Do I need to resend my scores are will you ... , "For UROP do I have to do research connected with my major?" No, not at -
Blog / Admissions
2,822 applications
So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to come back with a reality check: It was reported today that we received 2,822 early action applications this year, just about the same as last year. It -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I don’t have a school counselor?
schools do not calculate GPA or class rank, it's okay for your counselor -
Blog / How to Human
friendful life recently
to do, and that's something that can only come with time. now, i have ... self-isolate when i'm not doing well, and that means texts and emails go ... people being willing to help me do timed transfers in my experiments so -
Blog / MISTI
Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world
the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones ... young people doing similar stuff as an actual student. When I chose to go ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24
is really valuable: wherever you go, whatever you do, remember to check ... the opportunity he gave me to learn and do research under his wing. From ... lifelong friends in Manaus and will be returning this summer to do an -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
exploring, it means you do not develop a professional expertise straight away ... to office hours regularly, and I was doing well with handling 5 courses ... of struggling that I do not feel comfortable talking about here…so now -
Blog / Challenges
I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!
pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you ... spent the first portions of classes doing a thing called mindful walks in ... . I had time that I could spend doing nothing but thinking. This -
Blog / Uncategorized
to now and forever
that real adults do. And here I was doing it. Ethan spent the day ... somber, Kenneth mentioned to me that I seemed to be doing well. That I had ... complications and side things, Aiden was doing his own thing for a good chunk of -
Blog / Academics & Research
How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper
want to do any research that involves interviewing people or observation ... tight timeframe doing this kind of work is probably not viable unless you ... be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and -
Blog / Challenges
Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post
projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... things I do. So when I do get criticism, it's painful. My longest post ... magically just got made without me doing it. I wished that I didn't have to -
Blog / Summer
what i’m up to this summer doing all the things
Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... interview prep. All of this is silly. Do not be like me. I’m not saying you -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2
'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September ... probably won't directly inform anything that I want to do in the future. Now ... to do with that department, but is instead housed through the MIT Quest -
Blog / Academics & Research
what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected
lectures were about” is very distinct from “what do I feel like I got out of ... read economics papers. While I never learned how to do it directly as a ... week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your -
Blog / How to Food
kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!
openers from other people until we realized that we actually do own one ... breaking a few weeks after that--it started doing the thing where you have to ... 't do that. Because otherwise you might end up setting off a pressure -
Blog / Academics & Research
everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things
that I just really enjoy learning physics, doing problems, etc. Physics ... sort of thing you could do anything with, and seeing as I don’t know what I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby -
Blog / Challenges
Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster
trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... bad history of actually listening to its students. I do recall filling ... stuff on my to-do list. We move in this weekend, and the first thing we -
Blog / How to MIT
My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one
navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... your computer do it for you. Starting from the app I picked up right