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  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... human I'd ask them yes haikubot is now starting to do really really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  (I did that a lot), refreshing the admissions site or reading bloggers ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... doing what I did sophomore year again and talking to the PNMs with my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He ... to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... different curricula, or climates, or financial aid packages? Do they even want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  do something together, and so puzzlehunts have a special place in my ... it could be called such, was releasing the registration site with some ... living now? and What's it like working for AoPS? and What do you feel about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  classes there, and if you do well enough in their classes you’re basically ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  The Torch or The Firehose, or the indispensable class planning site ... the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... in the end but it feels mostly awful while you do it (even though you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  age, some who I still see on our newer sites, who grew up alongside me ... the year a daily user of DeviantArt, a site that at the time was ... ."]cliffhangers.[/annotation] Have to do my homework *ugh*.[annotation note="I made a Facebook that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  the site of the MIT Admissions visitor center. As the admissions office ... and rush your application—apply when you are ready. Just do not wait ... our current application. Just as we do now, the 1973 application asks

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... "Applying Sideways" blog, it's more important that you do things you love when

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  with men from outside. The very fact that students do not live in ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  coming out to them anytime soon. I always imagined I’d do it out of ... , do you hear me?). But all that changed when I found out that “[I] GOT ... to do with my life, I finally figured out that I want to pursue content

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... Dumbledore. WHAT?! I was stunned. What. A. Ridiculously. Nice. Thing. To. Do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  interviewees back at the site to wait. This was actually really cool because we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012