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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  the Same Direction) If you’re challenging yourself, there will be times ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... that the school can see why someone like you would be great to have on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  all our old filing cabinets, taking full advantage of being in the ... structure of our current program—with the exception of “pass-fail grading” now ... undergraduate study. Pass-fail grading is used in the freshman year. [carousel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just be yourself”, and the other half (plus the countless pseudo ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester ... will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major would be like for the following years. One of your semesters will feel

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

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

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will be releasing decisions for transfer students next Wednesday, 12/21. Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . Sometimes, we will be too far to grab the hands of those who were bashed by ... . Future therapists will be endlessly impressed with the self awareness you ... , surviving, and being given a lot of teddy bears in the hospital. —C Liu

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  exam, your interest in the material may vanish, and your mind will be so ... , and that everything will be okay. Where’s the humanity in the art on ... complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  of easily editable cubes[/caption] The same idea can be applied to ... (X, Y) entirely. Although some parts of it will be [annotation note ... , then transfer to a large sheet pan. When the oven is done preheating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , and you will be fine. From among the endless, infinite, impossible yous ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  code up a sorting hat. It won’t be an exact sorting hat—the fact that you ... , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My ... A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... , that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hour.   The spirit of 2.009 couldn’t be farther from that ... $6500 for the three months of 2.009. Most teams will use all of this ... shape. It’s 1 hour until instructors will be coming by to examine

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  will also be the place to meet their best first-year friends (and look at ... ? That would be the world-famous Kilted Colin, entertaining by Faneuil Hall ... who own cash and are willing to navigate the occasionally tough (but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn ... resource. 8. People will assume you can fix their cars and build the next ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  being an over-achiever, and MIT becomes the first place you can’t get ... probably be called Adjustment is a Process. The subtitle would be Give Yourself Time. The first chapter would be Take It Easy. It really doesn

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  future residents, and will just be… gone. All the effort put into making ... down the line, will read this post. Maybe one of them will be inspired ... West), I found the attached email. You will see that this is dated from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... just being 4 years of puzzle hunts and robotics competitions for the hell ... ’t know what they’re doing. It’s about being the only person in the room who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... Cambridge for the first time and set my sights on being a software engineer ... yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015