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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... school. Get a huge notebook with calendar dates and extra space to write ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... and replacing them with the econ courses i won't get to take, but i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the ... ’re trying to get across? Would you want to admit yourself? Do you have typos ... each part building upon the next. You don’t want it to get repetitive

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... there: sometimes I get too tired to fold my laundry and just fall asleep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... why I was choosing to take certain classes, and I was starting to get ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  impossible to get into a top med school without research from MIT (I know many ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... as far as the Effect gets you. You don't get 0.2 magically appended to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  problematic for my soft, smooth chains of Pockets. To protect against getting ... some kind of bird. (What a shame; it was just getting used to swimming ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... -in-stomach feelings I get when it gets bad in response to these imaginary threats my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020