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• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your ... ? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering ... whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  cool experience. Free transportation: MIT students get free access to ... ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit ... ’s also just nice to get thrown back into that freshman year excitement for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  by it: follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... that you are confident in your decision and prepared to give yourself to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... move to the beat and the rest is history.   What’s your prior ... vibe. Umm, my 5th-grade class did the dance to crank that by soulja boy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to ... really want to break it down: Turn phone off. (Hard!) Get up. Walk ... shower. Wait for it to warm up. Get in the shower. Shower. Get out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  . (I mean, I...) Phillippe wonders: When do freshman get to see the ... to help you out). If you don't get the chance to see all the dorms, no ... , each of the dorms have their own culture and you get to choose which one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... to feel just a wee bit hungry. Eager to make new friends!   ... 1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... -based, so you will only pay as much as your circumstances allow you to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  when to take your vacation or start a new job. I may never again feel ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... new, cool sensor applications. I’m vaguely intrigued by doing a sensor ... ="communication-intensive class in your major -- you need two to graduate, and they're usually lab

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  to find new methods to approach problems." 21L.003 (as taught by Ina ... gratifying to connect with your region of origin through a deep and analytical ... were a great way to get back into watching theater productions." 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  clubs, extracurriculars, and other opportunities to get involved as a ‘24 ... "]extrude[/annotation]or [annotation note="remember your calculus y'all (just kidding you do not need to ... in the X, Y, or Z direction to make it. You have to make NEW planes

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  stuff in your ice cream. And then see what happens to you after you eat it ... building. Which is pretty much what I was hoping to get out of this UROP ... , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  applying to, but fortunately, the deadlines and requirements vary by country ... impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... to get them all done after the weekend, even if it meant grinding them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020