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  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of ... responsibility, but as a title or a source of pride. This is something we could do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... Mekele student to do a geographical survey for one of their wells, and the ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  with a stipend!) by MIT. (Please, please do this. If you need help ... 're stagnating. You still have a lot of growing to do. Move. Let chapters end. A ... 'll probably do it, even if she thinks you're a weirdo with big thumbs! I grew up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  hotel in Okinawa, Japan. (My school was a DoD school, also in Japan, so ... , definitely not my smartest idea. tl;dr do not try at home kidz. A.M. ‘19   My ... around Tau o'clock I decided to log in a couple of minutes early just to

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  a foothold on why they wanted to Do The Thing beyond these reasons ... led to wanting to Do The Thing) and also helped me build a credible ... thank you note. Is this not a thing youths do anymore?? Seriously, y

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  a class so I ended up doing the same thing for all the other classes I ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  psetting, there's no reason you shouldn't sit at a different desk doing the ... labor intensive. A lot of graders I know will do it late at night or when ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Gryffindor INFJ O: 93%; C: 75%; E: 58%; A: 68%; N: 43% Type 1 wing 5 "I'm too ... Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... agree with the general aspects of a libra. I do not agree with the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

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

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

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... 't have to spend brain power thinking about it. This includes a to-do list ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn ... of classes, although I did do a few things   like teaching and ... . Genuinely care about the places you apply to, and if you do find that a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014