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  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... goal is honestly to get picked to be a [annotation note="Goal for all of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... gets a letter inviting him to come for a tour of MIT. It's an exciting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Monday to take pictures for this, and then I didn't get the post out until ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and ... work for 21F.701 (Spanish I), even though that really amounted to maybe

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  him there getting all excited every time I’d get to a new practice ... ’t do that.). And you do want to prepare for it by brushing up on your ... . By encouraging the undergrads to go off and get experiences elsewhere

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• 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 ... lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making

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

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024