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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community"). Today, my plan is to just grab the food and put it in the fridge to eat ... just so much nicer. 5.40 pm: Everyone I'm talking to lives in the East

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• 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 ... to other prefrosh. Everyone wants to meet new people just as much as ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is ... the students in that class sitting around Ayomide really did need to ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... – which is to say, crazy, fast-paced, unbelievable, terrifying, and ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  one night in Boston meant just as much to me as two nights and two days ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  used to at MIT. There wasn't going to be much in terms of ... . Everything was going to be different, for better or worse. I needed to, in many ... want to spent my time, how much water I consume. This is but the start of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... . (This belief is largely due to, well, people like me. Sorry guys.) But ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... this is magic. These are things that all the adults in my life had to sit ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in ... did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part ... , I wonder if MIT needs to be as hard as it is. I deeply appreciated

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and Informed) Risk-taking: Going to MIT is risky in itself, considering ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... coaching, I could become a much better runner. Admissions is a little like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  , toss that in the pot to brown. If not, skip this step. When the meat is ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• 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 ... is on their way to the World Solar Challenge in Australia! Support them ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  accepted/rejected, because there is so much more to you, your abilities, and ... post to remind you that success is something you pull out of yourself ... to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve ... different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019