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  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.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... came into mind at that point, "If it works, stick with it." This one I

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

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way ... decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... readers who are high school seniors, this all may strike a chord with you as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  schemes. MIT is grey. Harvard is red and occasionally green with slithering ... Fellow, rather than a Writing Advisor, helps with papers. The styles of ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last ... finally got someone to answer, it was an older man with a bone to pick. “I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... write about a robot opera in Monaco, got to hang out with one of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  our transfer community with the blogs, I asked [annotation note ... . Amanda: I was greatly warned of the challenges with Wellesley and MIT ... keep up with both the transfer application and my regular schoolwork

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things ... . Once you’ve stayed up with someone till 7am, multiple times, just talking ... that lasts a lifetime. Your relationships with your family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff ... turn the laser on and off. The laser is powered with a 10280 lithium ... a class D stereo amplifier with feedback control. This project was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... and most exciting project I've ever been involved with. I'm really eager ... in Boston's Hubway, should be able to rent helmets with bikes if they

  • 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?!

  

  creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La ... with dining and housing options. However, this was not always the case ... engineering angle to them, and so the dorms were built with the residents

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... with Pass/No Record, it may very well seem like everyone’s hanging out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and ... MIT was a great risk, with a very small chance of positive outcome. You ... and the people you are with. Take chances; be bold enough to put your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... things he said and the way he downplayed a lot of issues with a sinking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applicants doesn’t want the cachet that comes along with just being admitted ... , collaborating and teaching, working and playing with amazing people doesn’t happen ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... jazz band in sixth grade, and then continued with the high school version ... didn't, Mr. L would usually make eye contact with me, and I knew that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  an Eagle Scout with a 4.0. Or a drum major with a 2400. Maybe they need ... knowledge with dogged precision. Because it is better to be educated and ... careless or cruel. Treat those around you with kindness. Help people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... . I hated it so much that I considered it broken beyond repair. So, with ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my ... class) will go faster than you're comfortable with and you'll just hope to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and ... like, how they react with each other, what their orbitals are doing at ... it with 100 more charts before your group meeting on Tuesday. If you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006