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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

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

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own. (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM: "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012