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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  ), that PDF application gets seen by many, many eyes, from the time it gets ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... can't stop raving about you. And sometimes - as hard as we often try not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... guess, a bigger reason would be because so much depends on these systems ... about Building 20, you'll see how much people praised the building

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven ... wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math. I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  eaten by thermodynamics than quantum chemistry. So I pretty much know what ... HOW HOW HOW can I make this bigger/smaller/faster/better?". You still ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  whatever career you choose, your success isn't measured by how much you can ... graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... their grades. I realized how much my parents love me (and I never could

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... -workers on their exotic business trips, but I did get five paid vacation days

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• 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 ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  fine art. Much like the question "are video games art?" we can ask "are ... much logistics. If you can put the thing on a website, [annotation note ... CMS is the idea of "applied humanities": we study media so we can apply

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  opportunities, and to seek out serendipity in as much as you can. You can ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Book Pro, the power cord can get trapped between the screen and the keyboard ... computer was my dad’s old Dell, which ran Windows XP. The system gets slower ... force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... much as I [annotation note="when i wasn't, you know... incredibly ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  beginning, and I have learned so much. Don’t get me wrong, though, the start ... an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Failure is Not an Option"]book[/annotation], get

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

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• 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…

  

  planning on attending graduate schools, what if he/she can't get into the ... colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school ... money (because as we all know, the whole college applying-to can get

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

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

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the

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

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... most recent trip to Daily Table. You can also follow their much prettier ... are, cannot match. City living can have its own specific challenges

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... most MIT students respect and admire each other much more than they ... can relate to passages like this: There’s this feeling that no matter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013