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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  MIT-style, putting down more classes than you will take because you have ... what you would've done otherwise.  Attend the MIT Global ... ; meeting with SFS to figure out tuition billing; meeting with MIT Medical to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  it may surprise you to know that even an institution as old as MIT has ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... decisions deadlines; I chose to apply to MIT EA. As soon as I had sent the ... hardest to get MIT Decision Day 2010 to come faster, I couldn't. Heck, it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... MIT calls me out on that last one, though, I have a perfectly justified ... MIT experience to be like drinking from a fire hose, I feel that, about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... run into Akhil, the only other person to have ever been admitted to MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... most MIT hopefuls are either. I started getting serious about studying

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  short-answer system that MIT adopted. A few months ago, I created a bogus account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... semester yet at MIT? You bet. OKAY THANKS FOR YOUR TIME -Lulu

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  any sense if I said it to someone at MIT. He also told me the story of ... nonsense? Just as it’s nonsensical to think of someone at MIT losing their horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... links are 100% free.   Name: MIT OpenCourseWare Link: ocw.mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  by an MIT professor on MIT students). People are willing to pay just to ... . Today’s is with a grad student at MIT: we talk about his journey into ... to choose MIT, but rather to help you to make the best decision for you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog ... linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group of MIT undergraduates. Well, mostly MIT undergraduates; one of my co

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The ... . I got into the schedule of an MIT day. Of course, there's lots of different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was commencement for the Class of 2011 from MIT. This weekend, two of my ... began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free ... job at MIT and finding out it's the best home I've ever had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... of those dreams kind of got lost along the way, and as an MIT senior, I ... MIT would let me reach my full creative capacity. Although it was more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  the raw, untapped genius found so commonly amongst the common MIT ... lecture. The way the majority of MIT classes work, which I probably should ... anywhere and have such a drastically different background from MIT students

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  research through interviews, like my MIT graphic design history post.']in the ... MIT Alumni Directory, and sent them an email. [caption id ... into our Athena locker. Many communities in MIT have an Athena locker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... into this slice of MIT culture, creativity, and chaos. Everything below

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson ... D student in the MIT Software Design Group. It's about How Buildings Learn, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023