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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , will do, for you, and learn to appreciate them every day. Life is much ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... . Keeping these points in mind, is it possible to succeed at being premed at ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... *-foot-tall sledding hill in the EC courtyard! Who needs roller coasters when we have snow? *(which is weird because I helped screw the supports together to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  ME: let me take you to shallow goodale ME: the best salon in boston ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into ... i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... . All clear? Just in case it's not, let's explain... So, the goal is to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  admissions is figuring out WHY you want to put yourself through grad school in ... dedicated to mentorship, a philosophy that is widespread in the department ... cultural match to an institution. And I think fit is even more important in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... easy go-to’s are the following, in case anyone needs some inspo

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... . Other things to consider in your schedule: when is your latest class? Are ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  believed that what stands in the way becomes the way: it is only by moving to ... staying sober as an addict in recovery is to: “keep coming, and you sweep ... to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  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…

  

  that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... 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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  virtually. The teaching team is amazing, they put in so much effort, and it ... complex information to an audience is an art in itself. This class helped me ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... , and they will appear. 5. Senior Year: Focus There is so much to explore in college. Topics, groups, events… You need to explore, but once

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to ... ways in which it might grow—but I need, too, to leave some choices so ... Query to React and TypeScript, which I chose because React is taught in web

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

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

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... this post I'm going to highlight one result in particular: Some might ... 2018: Let me introduce you to Imposter's Syndrome. Chris described it in

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