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

  

  have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... entries on: "Why You Can’t Fail A Class Freshman Year." I’ve probably ... , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... maybe I can continue streaming after CPW. And, if it all goes poorly, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  everything else on my schedule. I can point to maybe one, two instances where ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ready. At least I can say I’ve made it this far, after all this time. So ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the tests for her. I can't complete the projects or lab work for her. But, I ... listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  , hopelessly confused, and I can (sometimes) instantly recognize their problem ... lots more groups of people. I can see other people's connections to each other, and that makes me think about what connections they have that I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... pressures that I can disclose was feeling this strange, existential crisis for ... recently; I think within the last three years or so. During the week, you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... . I can’t spend more than fifteen minutes without opening Discord or ... . I can’t really work when I’m hungry, which is when I wake up. And I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... lungs, I can run, and I can breathe. As David Foster Wallace says, this is ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... science, I can see myself working at a big tech company, not behind the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  ™. I think I held 4 phones in this time span which looking back does not ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018