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  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  strive to be a better, more interesting person in other ways. Another ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... , assume all directly MIT-associated jobs to be at this rate.  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all ... mathematics that may be offered by their school.”"]recommended high school

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... particular ones, at least within my state. I could [annotation note="To be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  way to deal with it. It was helpful for me. I also realize that being ... -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would ... eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  . cruft (n.) - (1) Old, mostly-useless junk. Being able to take cruft and ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

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

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a ... depending on what your professor asked you to do. Either way, you're going to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... -wracking because i have no idea what days/times they're going to be released but also ... are not value judgments--they're not meant to tell you whether the way

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... 't let it break you down. Don't let yourself be defined by where you get ... to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  MIT. By the way, graduates of MIT's Architecture department designed ... . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  ’s student government). After being selected by the committee, we each spoke to ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... Here’s a friendly step-by-step guide to being Junior Year Michelle, i ... they’re out there, but I won’t pretend to be one of them, and I doubt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... healthier than it used to be, we want to share it: As difficult as it is to ... ! To be completely transparent, we say this small phrase to ourselves so

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  inevitably, after "YOU USED TO BE SO CUTE! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE??", roll ... 't necessarily have to be pre-professional, it's basically one of your first few decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... to introduce ourselves to someone next to us), whose target looks way

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020