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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…

  

  baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder. You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , each with a list of all the stations we needed to visit, an associated ... . We had a bit of a struggle trying to figure out which shuttle we needed ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  those things was a copy of Robert Fulghum's "All I Ever Really Needed to ... give it to me. If you needed help, if you wanted to work on a great ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this ... , microwave-dependent college student to a burgeoning rival to Gordon Ramsay. My

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... ) option, that just involves a [annotation note="as much planning as you can ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years ... 't think I changed or grew much in that year, compared to my years at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant ... ends with a final playsentation something very unique to any other class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You ... I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which ... , because the beds aren't fantastic, and you really need to make the most of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007