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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  existence as that last sentence may make it out to be. We'll be able to work ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be ... unsuccessful job hunt, we realized that many companies are looking to hire

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and to size up your competitors. As long as you steer carefully, Pass/No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... incorporate electronics, how to work with manufacturers, and how to make sure ... will be able to handle this much force on it. Go back to your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  you're a second year". Things that feel notable to me. "Algebra ... catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of ... you could transfer to XVIII in your third year. It also lists that the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  some friends in sf, and i couldn't bring myself to enjoy the company. or ... your boat too close to the wind. but that was the principle. "i'll show ... trying to do work on days i don't have the energy to, i could make my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... an opportunity to take something you're interested in just because you're ... listening to street advice. Ask your friends what classes they've taken and

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  make you undervalue your (perhaps less-national-news-worthy) achievements ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... along the lines of: “Ceri, you’re going to have to revise your college

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... Daily Table, $1.99, thanks to a direct partnership with the company. And ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  neighbors, making it difficult to track specific colonies’ survival. You ruin ... gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  to make myself feel better. M.B. ‘17   I had just finished the ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... to make sure it was working”””” and read just the first line and couldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  make choices and zoom in, and there’s this whole world again.  To sketch ... theorists and observers to make progress on questions that I believed were ... on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . Anything also make it into your bags/pockets/fanny packs? (I’m not here to ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  things: things that make you smile, things that make you want to crawl ... ’s best technology companies, but one can only get so excited about making ... consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which ... kindness. Help people. Contribute to your community. There were moments in ... people, you will somehow be good in your school as you will be required to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends of yours have started companies?” she asks me. Immediately, half a ... Kornbluth, and it makes me excited to see our president taking the initiative ... to MIT? “It’s cool to be curious here! It’s cool to start companies and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  because you tried. Every year around this day, I try to make an encouraging ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... they accomplish, that make it what it is. Just because you're not coming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015