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

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... , three days later, shot Sean Collier outside the Stata Center at the ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , forever gaping at you. It only took a week—my first week as a freshman ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like ... , at least there were always interesting things to do and think about ... completed with excellence. At the core of what makes MIT challenging is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning ... , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... attended at most one class per subject per week. I skipped all 18 ... week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... over my shoulder at the computer screen. The sun was having a joyous time ... papers, each new paper being marked with a worn yellow post-it note at the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  heart thump, waiting… Things didn’t get any better when I arrived at the ... uncle and his family waving at me, unaware that it wasn’t over yet. Oh ... of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... regular at the Brain and Cognitive Science colloquium; running up to the

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

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... ="attachment_99789" align="alignnone" width="768"] hike with friend[/caption]   At the ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  contribute at this hackathon since we were expected to physically build ... together before the hackathon (which was allowed at this competition) to ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... blend their real identities with their Unix ones. (Looking at you, Yuzhi ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ('Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like "the end ... must have checked the clock at least fifty times in every class. It wasn

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but ... region, and that would make me happy. I was good at math, and I got noticed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019