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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you. Eat

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... life you forget to do these things, and how much they can affect your ... gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... realize you're standing on thin air. This leads me to my other, ancillary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  easy to get used to. It’s important to remember throughout your time at ... of like working for a dating site. What is really cool is I get to meet ... then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... to yours; your research is standing on the backs of giants

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  so on. I met with a nice lady who encouraged me to include my Olympiad ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It ... pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... than I give to, like how I go to SaveTFP and get free food, or how I ... , or how I'll go to International Students Association meetings to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly ... -JAMB). Due to great restriction on the number of Nigerian universities I could ... specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... you how to fix something or just hang out. The rear rack on my bike ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  . He proceeded to get really excited and started going on and on about ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... year, but I am still learning how to get better at it—figuring out what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... benefit of being able to stay for an entire year, or more, depending on your ... to the cost of housing on campus. But, if you're smart, you can find

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019