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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will ... the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall

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

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

  

  scans on Youtube and community wellness's website, but this is my short ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It ... attack is an overwhelming flush of anxiety and fear than runs through your

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... . Everyone is involved with a million activities, which can be frustrating when you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... , wearables, and IoT, taught by none other than [annotation note ="Joe is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the ... 8.012 is really hard hell survival guides Jess on getting through the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color schemes. MIT is grey. Harvard is red and occasionally green with slithering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... commitments leaking over from a time when you didn’t understand what it is that ... 't be able to resist creeping on the blogs to see what everybody is up to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... little exercise. It's a timesaver, too, since my morning workout is wrapped up within my morning commute. Biking is also usually faster than any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... pretend I know what CJ is talking about. All I know is that the Green Line D

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ="aligncenter" width="500"] the website design is actually web 2.0 now, if you check it ... I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... -principal while he logged onto Penn’s website. Drums banged in my chest and throat ... Nigerian university is different and purely quantitative, depending on a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014