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  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... and Sciences' recruitment has to occur during CPW. So drop by and let us ... know. 13.Try new things by going to an event you scanned over whilst

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... 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

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... last week, and I’m still behind on work. I’m trying to take it day by day ... outside. I’m trying to get nine hours of sleep a night, even if there’s work

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  only by the right kind of light, we still weren’t able to finish the hunt ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to ... 'll excuse me, I have to get back to reading! :) ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time ... by everyone else too. Every day on campus I smile and wave to a dozen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  well as other regular attendees by cornering people to ask follow ... . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education. It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  ), that PDF application gets seen by many, many eyes, from the time it gets ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... read about you, care about you, and get to know you - almost as if I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned-calculus-by ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... school. Get a huge notebook with calendar dates and extra space to write ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... end in itself, but a means by which to build a better world, and I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018