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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... ways to change your happiness: change your life, or change your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . 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 ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... about a minute to get the words together to tell them the good news. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• 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…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... some slack (and if you send a polite and apologetic email to your

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... ) Get your 7 hours of sleep. You're not going to get more done in that ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... along the lines of: “Ceri, you’re going to have to revise your college

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding ... same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... because there's not a lot to learn? You know you're way around, so the hard

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . Because of my astronomy expertise, I get to give talks for amateur astronomy ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired ... experience talking to strangers and getting them to sign up to teach for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of ... -sufficiency and independence. We hope you will decide to join us in this endeavor. The Admissions Office looks forward to receiving your application, and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... worked out that I'd get home with plenty of time to spare. As I started ... you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so ... start applying your humanities knowledge to everything.) In the Assassins

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn ... which to stand, and slowly, surely get stronger with the help of my ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... a drone with your phone attached to it

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018