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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  are up and out of bed by requiring you to place your feet on the ... about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how ... countdown timer that displays on the bottom how much time the user has left to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  character to your room. get SLAPped! ... to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  high school subject on your own. Great all around tool to learn an entire ... sheets and study guides that get sent to your email when you sign up at ... website is an amazing way to get free, on-demand tutoring services from like

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding ... encouraged to work on other things while at the desk, given that when someone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  on to who I thought I was. I remember letting go. I remember accepting ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  fonts on supplemental materials, is going to make your application more or ... to understand how awesome they actually were. Part of being your own ... area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  sitting on your desktop that refuses to get shorter? Is it a person that you ... services and ask for advice on getting accommodations for your exam you are ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

   Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... ’ll never get anywhere. Just accept that you’re going to be in many pictures

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021