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

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as

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

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  priority is admitting enough students who can be successful. If the ... special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... more adversarial you are, the less likely that you are going to be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my ... , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  (2021–2022):  The spring credit limit for first-year students will be ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  said that why yes, that would be great. So my friend asked the natural ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a ... /life boundaries: [annotation note='In fact, if these conditions persist, they can be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  myself, I’d be in jail” (from “Girl Named Hello” by of Montreal ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... happened recently is that I feel less pressure than before to constantly be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like ... rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5 ... these lessons can be guideposts that allow you to learn, enjoy yourself ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  entering MIT. Don't worry, I'll wait.) And three, because I'm about to be ... back to California to start medical school, where I will be wearing flip ... 're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben

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

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... sometimes, but being wifi-less definitely helped. Between problem sets (that ... them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be ... extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who ... "] west campus is not included because i'm gonna be real, i think i only

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... Housing Off Campus Finding housing can be a bit tricky. Luckily, there's a ... . I haven't used these resources to find housing to be fair, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a story. A good admissions story would be like She worked so hard and ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be ... wouldn't they accept me? It's meant to be. They must have gotten something

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  ask the seniors I knew what they were taking, and would often be ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be ... internship/externship. I’m still working on this one. Hopefully, this will be ... that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  actually so many majors that I could be more suited for and so many I haven’t considered and I could be any of them and oh my god what the everloving egg am ... anyone whose problems don’t seem to be important enough to others to merit

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... medal!" he says. Let's be honest: your chances of finding yourself in ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That

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

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... enthusiastic about volunteering. This will be very helpful for our future, when ... , too. And by extension, they desire things and dream of being something

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009