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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are ... information yet and I wanted to know before I decided." Anon, and everyone else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there ... while filming. afterwards i realized i enjoyed talking to them and wanted

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with my advisor to approve my classes last week, I had 60 units of classes

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to go to class due to fatigue. But the runny noses, cough drops, and Vicks ... it was due to the first two semesters being virtual. And sophomore year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... inside was water unless it was obvious otherwise. It's annoying to wash

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  needed to be. I've always very much been a more ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event to the next, never fully being present. I crash onto the bed at night

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... within my rights to throw my hat into the ring and give my own less than ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... morning. I went to bed at around 1 am last night (or I guess this morning ... someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  ’re excited to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some ... completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT ... December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I remember asking my parents to bless my application. I'm pretty sure that I would have sprinkled holy water on it if I had access to some. If someone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... reason I'm writing this right now is because Snively '11 sent an email to ... me to be an MIT blogger is because THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME THINGS

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to Costco, made pizzas, dressed like a princess, went to the incredible ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what banged, what happened before it banged, or what caused it to bang

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... goofing on collages. “Ok, whatever, I was just trying to help.” Because I ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7 ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011