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• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  you, on the DnD alignment scale" and "plot length of your subject ... holding lots of scribbled equations, but also to-do lists and schedules and ... on bringing it. As we hauled that heavy thing down three flights of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to ... a good friend of mine and always awesome and encouraging. Kinda like ... , but after the next week or so, a lot of CK stuff will be done and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  influx of heart-shaped candies and frilly pink cards and teddy bears ... Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy and whatever), so in the spirit of conserving the quantity of cynicism

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  classmates, as well as MIT students (home for Spring Break!) and alumni. These ... happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for ... list is just a subset of the many parties going on) Saturday Reno, Nevada

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  piles : Bring Home, Keep, and Junk. (If it helps, you can think of the ... sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends ... minor purchases. Don’t drag a mound of erasers and rulers on a plane, but ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  pretty much only based on classes, and most of those classes are ... ? Consider the stories of Phil '05 and Laura '06. Phil '05 (who got his ... considerable initiative, creative thought, and a good deal of individual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... programs to which I've applied, and since many of the programs are Far Away ... the name and number of their travel agent yet. (One reason to go to grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent ... eyes Moments of magic and wonder It seems so hard to find Is it ever ... packing all my stuff? from going home with miles and alaska: I wanted to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  on the CW television network (home of one of my favorite shows ... or on your iPod. Aomawa was Course 12 (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, or EAPS) and was a member of the a cappella group the Muses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... . Push away the thoughts of "What happens on June 1?" and simply just enjoy ... responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately

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

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , and Spring Break (hardly even over the summer), but I never go home on a ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down ... , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  , some of us are planning a trip to Inner Mongolia). And no constant bubble ... Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to ... informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... can explore the different inner cultures of the dorm and find which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  "Enrolling" option on the reply form, and then you can request a deferral any ... freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and when he ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  " option on the reply form, and then you can request a deferral any time ... his freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... narrowly about being able to memorize and recall all sorts of random minutiae

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021