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  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st ... ) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed with the [annotation note ... submitting in early January (around the deadline lol). I [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... thoughts so enjoy the whirlwind, mates. taking 72 units - downvote :( I ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the graduating seniors, or Hank Green's commencement address, or all the cool things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  Hampshire meant that the experience of old age was far beyond my perception. however, in the past few weeks, I've been confronted with more and more evidence that life is, indeed, inexorable. the weekend before classes started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  The bloggers have spent the last few weeks telling y'all what we did ... . There was an ec-discuss (the general East Campus mailing list notorious ... thought that you guys might like to see the responses and maybe think about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  .org/blogs/entry/finals-away-from-finals'>Sophomore spring</a> or <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been ... try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show at the Middle East, tasted a cider flight at the Artifact Cider Project

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020 ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... the summer in case you get stuck there, but consider Dorm Rush (REX), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I enjoy my project, but the people I've met there so far have been very chill. Without going into the details of the research project, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could sense something special about them from our first interaction. The ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... than yours with such alien mental models that you cannot predict the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is[annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... ."]Registration Day,[/annotation]and I’ll walk into my advisor’s office, the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer ... actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022