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

  

  good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement ... , because then you'll get to hear the professor talk about the syllabus and ... place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . By encouraging the undergrads to go off and get experiences elsewhere ... . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the ... getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It ... exhausting routine. At the very least, take a walk. Get to know the community ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to ... . Ultimately, “Paint By Word” was rejected by that conference, which happened to ... of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which ... and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... swim: Get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic.My classes ... ? Yes. But then I asked myself: could it get any worse? And I had to admit

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy ... 'm serious. 10. Take a weekend trip to NYC - Chinatown bus. $15. Gets you ... - how else do you get to the airport? lol. I'm too poor to take a taxi

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with ... formerly joyful turned to chores. like being blown by erratic winds, ones ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007