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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... , and that I left campus to visit them every now and then. I went on a few ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years ... made no effort to absorb it. I didn’t make many new friends, and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  ’t have a voluntary represented on the panel. The advice voluntaries need to ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  people showed up to this online forum. During my time serving on a ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... . It meant a lot to be recognized on such a prominent national stage ... optimistic on a daily basis, become an admissions officer. Here's to the next

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  wanted to take a picture and turn it into a full-on solar cell. Creating ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... multiplying out two very long polynomials: something you might have to do on a ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  decide to form a Canadian coalition and insist on either both performing or ... : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... : Equidecomposable The ability to chop up one figure and build a new one out of its ... to focus on invariant theory, a branch of abstract algebra examining

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012