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  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…

  

  left before your early applications are due, and if you are anything like ... they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... throwing that one out there. 2) Pretend you’re not you- This sounds

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  out microwave for stove, metaphorically, and unwaveringly pursuing your ... stepping stone for another one disrupt your dreams and the progress you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  . Your Body Is a Clock: Chronobiology. What even is chronobiology? I have ... interested in teaching for Splash?” It also means that when your friends pass ... . You can then look through the deck of cards, and you’re trying to figure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  . Instead, fast and low-fidelity mockups (like rough cutting blocks of foam ... Works animation.  But to me, it's not about doing what's fast, it's

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• 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 ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... chances are, if you applied early, you’re freaking out right now. Be it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... helpful. Here goes...       Your friends will change a ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... opinions of your teachers and counselors will matter, as letters of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your application, stressing and laboring over tiny details. If you’re like me, you ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... being this: the more you pay, the less it will be your voice!) Oooops. I ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading ... wake up a day later. You’re still tired. You’re always tired. You slept ... . The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... medal!" he says. Let's be honest: your chances of finding yourself in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before you start letting sweat bead upon your brow and frantically asking ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  nothing similar about those two majors. At all." So if you're a chemistry major (Course 5), you're going to learn about molecules. What they look ... squeeze the whole major into three years, leaving you free your senior year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , not compared to what everyone else has done. But you're so passionate ... better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you’re stupid ... belief that you don't belong, that you're a fraud, that you've been lucky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal ... highly accurate caricature of itself Lulu on surviving MIT optimizing your

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

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in ... a CI-H/HW class some time in your first year, so consider those. Also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  finding your inner strength to move onwards. Move onwards from failing, from ... ? Because you're not like the others. You're not a pretender, you're the real deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014