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  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 ... ="depending on how you frame the situation, the General Institute Requirements ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  -friends muscle, which you'll need to strengthen and rely on throughout your first ... easier to keep your momentum going than to try to get started partway ... 't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  to the left[/caption] CJ: It’s 1011 and we get on the Orange Line ... ’t sure whether or not to stay on or get off. Our plan said we needed to run ... that Charlie gets stuck on the MTA because he didn’t have enough money to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... pass out on top of your problem set. 2) join clubs and activities you ... fun! work with people you like—you do not need to fill your resume with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  how MIT Admissions works based on hanging around Admissions a lot ... list of their stats, and demand to know how they could possibly have been ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... here? Do I deserve to be here? How does this reflect on me as a person ... importance of teamwork and relying on others, or how to make decisions that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  . Do the things that matter to you, not just things to tick off on your ... : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  finding out how to go places through MIT, email me. Here's your first hint ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... about privacy on social network sites. He apparently liked me enough that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  tasks, and up to you on what timescale you will do these tasks, and how ... works for you, not just what works for your advisor. You learn how to motivate yourself, how to construct your own schedule and timeline, how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... level to get very high. If you like free food, you’ll love it here. If ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want ... several things. 1. You get to choose your living group. Each living group ... 't have those priorities, and that's okay. You get to choose your own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

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

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

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

  

  taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to want your child to succeed and to encourage them to do well, threatening ... and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... unable to actually to actually touch you. Your GPA remains exactly how it ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your ... a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021