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

  

  that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the ... . I had close friends who didn't get in - people I knew were just as

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  . More on these things further down the blog, though, and we can start ... the semester started and it was just kind of over (plus we didn’t get ... , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... most MIT hopefuls are either. I started getting serious about studying

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  older entries now, I realize that it made the experience much richer than ... really ever sent one of their students off to MIT, much less someone who ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... begin and end the workday without much natural light. I take comfort from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  previous week and I did not do much other than study. There were lots of naps ... money I get for this blog post goes toward Legos. “This building is 16+. Are you sure we can handle it?” “Yes. We're only emotionally immature

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  (and hence gets the most credit), and the rest of the authors are ... hectic, but I had complete faith in the paper getting written in time, as ... of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  can. The pre-med students that I met during my CPW were all down ... intimidating (so much to do!) and very helpful. I've visited the pre ... - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  getting bored, and can't see myself working with one project (or even one ... gets distracted by airplanes flying overhead, and gave Professor Darmofal ... looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... , and achieving it can be anticlimactic, as when professors get depressed ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  ’s best technology companies, but one can only get so excited about making ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  tact (meaning if you are tactless, you get 1 Itani). You can read more ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited ... prioritized what was being cleaned where (you could pretty much predict the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... an engineering firm, or wherever else I can apply to with my sanity

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude ... challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before ... backgrounds, and you can’t discredit yourself solely on a standardized test

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  plans simple, because even the simplest things can go wrong much more ... free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021