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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... 'm already stressed about it. The end result of these conversations is always the same

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ! And it's not perfect, of course. One of the boards is slightly offset ... ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... enough. The absolute best part of making your own furniture is that you

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

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  a cereal box, which is not really true dimensionally, but the scale is ... titled Excellent Sheep, has been mentioned a lot on the blogs, and is ... . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big ... links and brief descriptions. UPDATE 4/15/15 This is the first day I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... . Twenty feet, not even two buildings, not even one. The friend who I was ... 't see. The graph is messier, but it's also more vibrant, beautiful, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... forward to right now is the Whirlwind of Metamorphosis book launch. It ... launch ceremony, in which the book is presented to an audience and sales

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... thing -- the Internet is not some magical force. There are tangible ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  the social time I had everywhere and nowhere. Dashing around, not ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... room. However, there is a narrow, uneven, paved parking spot next to the ... 's almost October, the Z is closed to non-campus staff through the rest of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor; you're not as sneaky as you think you ... . (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

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

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  meeting, we were laughing about the confession, and a Blogger Who Must Not ... [annotation note = "spoiler alert: this is not a thing"]sibling legacy ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... : “The shortest distance between two points is reliably a straight line. If ... buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... . If you’re deferred, it’s not the end of the road. Recollect, continue

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  fire and [annotation note="okay the brimstone part is more metaphorical ... paper, I was the [annotation note="Usually the last author is given to the ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Tony, who was on the MechE sub-team, not Software, came to help as well ... … well the rest is a blur. I was chosen as a presenter, along with Grace ... describe this experience. Not just the last ten days — oh my — but everything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... normal class is worth 12 units at MIT, which indicates that the class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019