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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... I take the time to reflect back on who I am, what I have done and ... , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the ... choke on dust. The next day, to a different coworker, I said, whatever

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my ... over to the hack, which had been put on the "Dot" in front of the Green ... bother you, but can I please borrow your window for a moment to take a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... 't equipped to deal with that many support services. I knew it was best to go on ... everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this year, and we can all connect the dots on what that means. (I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  did in 2023: Went on a senior trip to New York with friends ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  . I don't know too much about it, but according to its website "its ... +Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on ... Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  loves to spam reminders for work I’m procrastinating on. Sprinkled in ... . Well hopefully, in the near future, I’ll be on campus to see what exactly ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  'd share the two that I have and do some reflecting on who I used to be ... your aps and stuff, but at least you didn't have to do fencing or ... to not be at your best. It doesn’t diminish your worth.” i'd recommend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  memo too. Now, if you're going to a biannual event involving an ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times ... new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I ... . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  snatch dates on Tinder or join clubs or even just go to a single Queer West ... something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... !  _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ As someone who is definitely not qualified to give out advice regarding

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college ... having sat on countless committees, that we simply don’t care if your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  community of students with similar backgrounds to rely on throughout your time ... -- if you’re a prefrosh or prospective student, I encourage you to learn ... Interphasers who would go on to become some of my best friends, Carlos and Fabián

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... analysis on your screen time reports and then if it’s as tragically high as

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... Hello, Class of 2012! There's lots of fun stuff now on your My ... for CPW on March 31 or when your travel plans are solidified, whichever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... on the team! I had no idea what to expect. I’d already paid team dues ... ‘til the mountain closes at 4pm. We head back to the cabin, go on a run

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016