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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... disappointed, and the truth is, as admissions officers, we too are disappointed ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... observe my surroundings, not just from the new cultures we have visited, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  experience what it is, not where you are. Take advantage of the opportunities ... - "'The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts'. You're not just the ... opportunity is really a blessing in disguise. The hard thing is, the blessing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... less intelligent, that the content is nearly the same, and one does not ... of arbitrary, because the math is difficult and not intuitive to me. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  self-actualization—not just on the blogs, but also in person and in my ... awkward, wouldn’t it? The soup would just fall on their heads. It would not ... we’re not all from Wisconsin.) We all sometimes wish we could steal the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Haymarket is a not the most tourist-appropriate location. On Friday and ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not ... the process I think is becoming well-equipped and not beating myself up ... is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp & springy and the air smells like water and moss. It’s January so this is ... -size rat darts up the bank—that we could not be anyone else, that because we

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use ... things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really ... I've gotten on this subject already - seriously, the adcoms are not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  aspirations that led me here. The real value of search algorithms is not in ... teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... is not as accommodating. Scary, isolated tasks like midterm exams

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn ... dorm). DINING: this one is a major addition to the bill and an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  blogs, is the popularity of the "stats post". Some eager applicant posts a ... you might imagine, this is important at MIT. If you played the same ... . Well, some MIT students are quite well-rounded, others not so much. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• 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

  

  , this is the professor, but sometimes that’s not the case. Be it a TA, a ... ’ll actually take. This is not a joke; I’m dead serious. Don’t let the career ... following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be

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

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

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... was possible, or both. The chainsaw hack is an excellent example of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... . Our visible, spectrum-of-light world is not grayscale. It is full of ... , told I am “not really ___”, given the wrong utensils, asked if the food

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you not watched all three Lord of the Rings Extended Editions in a row ... thanks to Eric ‘16 who pushed me the whole way). Not only was it great fun ... ’ve frantically emailed the admissions office after realizing you made a horrible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014