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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... bugs and reconfiguring later, I managed to make it much easier to use for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up:   Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  .20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a ... range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making ... meetings that no longer apply to you. you add your permanent email address to ... to take away your @mit.edu email address eventually. you return all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of ... . The Admissions Office looks forward to receiving your application, and

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  to you? What makes your floor fun/quirky/unique? What’s the #1 ... decision makes sense since our community was already slated to be disrupted ... seemed like a natural step to us since, for one, it doesn't make sense for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  classes. They’re not the same.  Applying to things only makes this worse ... together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  . Then I go to sleep. It makes me feel better.  It isn’t all sad things ... decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  there is nothing wrong with making haikus, and listening to them when they ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all ... control your emotions and make you hate everyone but today i learned that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends ... : I want you to announce your presence - Me: Announce my p-wait, what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... character to your room. get SLAPped! ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  gosh darn it I was going to make that a damn good mid year report. So I ... it's unfortunate because you're all really awesome. You made it to ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  your project turns out to be, and you are not subject to cutesy sound ... class is wild. It's really your first introduction to the beauty of ... learnable?? 6.UAT really will make your presentation skills (your slides, your

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  to leave it. Future me, if you're reading this, I hope that you miss ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021