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

  

  to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like ... depending on what your professor asked you to do. Either way, you're going to ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It

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

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... the opportunity, but rather to fully capitalize on it. As much as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad ... to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... discover, staircases that lead to different places depending on when you take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... anchor. In swim class I realized that floating on your back gets difficult ... when you're done; you also get some well-earned sleep, to be sure, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you ... the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . You’ve been inside since 11am, trying to get your circuit to generate ... to get it on Monday). >>>> Fast-forward to Monday morning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  on MIT and I was fortunate enough to apply and get in early action. I ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... “carefully overhear”) some strangers’ conversation. On getting into an uber, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... inevitably, after "YOU USED TO BE SO CUTE! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE??", roll

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... , not compared to what everyone else has done. But you're so passionate ... so far and that all your successes are really nothing to be proud of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  successful in college is learning how and when to rely on your support system ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... think about what you'd want them to include in your letters and gauge how

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  put on your resume, you get direct contact with professors, and you ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023