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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... out of bed to get ready (bathroom, brushing teeth, etc.). Making it out ... outside the room and attempt to find the latest version of the Asymptones

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  range of research conducted out there, and have gotten to know speakers as ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I thought to highlight this space, so I asked Nandini, one of the main staff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... students fear failure to some capacity. I'm scared of trying new things ... failures every day and that's ok. It takes a lot of trying to get through

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  already, but I've definitely been busier than usual. I hope to see some of ... topics I need to cover before the end of the month, like asking one of my ... 'll be happy to reclaim an extra hour or two of life/work/sleep when VEDA

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... with a sense of inspiration and a desire for greatness like I wanted to ... deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student stories of ... record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said ... to all of our students (regardless of how he might believe they ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  browsery in the second floor of Hayden library because I wasn't ready to ... . I turned to Cory, my supportive, loving boyfriend of three years and ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... saw an incredible display of talent from down-to-earth, friendly peers

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... that I managed to pull through, thanks to the work of Wayne Z. ’23 and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... of these next to each other, right? Here, U means Sunday, and R means ... . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004