Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of ... much identical to the PE requirement today. Needed are 8 points of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  and the other the minimum amount of classes we need to finsih a CMS ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  becomes more import to REX than REX itself, then I think this does become a ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... merged to a single Campus Preview weekend. It was held [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  spelling and grammar stuff. I could totally write a much less sappy ‘how to ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... , and try to structure our non-admissions related work (like redesigning a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is ... included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least ... take it and also because I need to graduate....^^; So why was I told to listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells

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

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

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  has a lot of memorabilia that we needed to figure out how to store ... being that they need to form communities. That would be a complete ... form, and to many students is much more important than things like AC, a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004