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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... , 3E went to get waffles and then went back to next. Yesterday, we went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating ... activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember ... over that snothead you used to get into shenanigans with back in high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... % of students will have gone to get mental health help. And that ... gets tough. A few of them that I particularly looked up to talked about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006