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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... . Anyone know an eight-letter word having to do with the location of M*A ... think of any other topics you'd like me to focus on, let me know. And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... phase where I wanted to go into cybersecurity but I went on this trip to ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  need to decide on a major (sometime during sophomore year) and then study ... pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... all: What are you going to study? Would a degree from MIT really be

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  had to soldier on to Jamaica Pond, where we spent an hour and a half ... didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... way out to the Boston Common. With such a plan in mind, I met Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... to 17 out of the 408 students on our wait list. At this point, our wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  I’ll procrastinate on doing work if it means getting to spend a couple ... lot of weight on having a good salary. As someone who used to worry about being approved by others, I used to put a lot of weight on having a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring, check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library, which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... there :) Watch this video of two hamsters on a wheel. . . . it's not a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of ... together in a way that makes me smile a lot on the inside and the outside

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like ... 9th grade and well, I figured if one class was going to be a disaster

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  all that is metaphorical, it's safe to say that I've updated you on my ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... name a living scientist. I wanted to help counter that a little bit by ... generally...I decided to try and work on people who were somewhat iconic and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... ? That’s okay. I think I saw a sign with your picture on the way in. Let ... I hope you have a great fall semester! Mine is already off to a great

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... than anyone else on this matter. I purchased tea, a scrapbook, and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... of a big deal around these parts, and wouldn't you know, it happens to ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016