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  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Some recent ones that might help are Life Changing Classes at MIT ... have enough time to walk between classes? Everything runs on MIT time ... colleges have wildly different academic calendars and deadlines than MIT does

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... “work” in general. One of my clearest memories at MIT comes from a group

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... age—you, the readers maybe, the future classes of MIT or colleges ... ."]Harvard down.[/annotation] I could've had MIT too, but most their stuff just had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ;Iron Man" reverse explosion. #touchless #009mit #009purple #mechE #MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world ... country. The time away from MIT will help give you perspective, and you ... 's okay to feel conflicted about MIT as a school and as a home. Realizing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  will remain open. This was reason I left MIT so early, before I could

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I ... every MIT student"]those who like to keep themselves busy,[/annotation] it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  to MIT, more or less equidistant from Central, Harvard, and Inman

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... is to "trust oneself completely to", and that when I committed to MIT I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  fire that accurately describe the MIT experience. Ironically people also describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 ... dormspam-the-game@mit.edu rn whitney: ooo wait what if u had people play ... prizes to give away to our participants. MIT students will do a lot for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  you want to know: you get into MIT when you’re seventeen.  Maybe this ... another for ages. You decided you wanted to go to MIT when you were seven ... before MIT, or that summer program, or graduating high school. You are me

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  context, I struggle to accept my place at MIT. I already feel like I have to ... ."]stupid.[/annotation]Most of the time, I try my best to avoid telling people I go to MIT because the common assumptions of what an MIT student is like does not describe

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... more easily: Congratulations! We are so excited to welcome you to the MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn ... ’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the topic of MIT admissions, much has been said by me, and others, about our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of ... experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010