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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college (we just finished hosting Campus Preview Weekend to help our admitted ... might want to apply to college, and high school freshmen and sophomores

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you ... schedule this term so lets get to it. (classes are arranged chronologically ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues the very last day. I was supposed to send the email requesting an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven ... , it's hard to see what's not to love about the department. We've got a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events ... reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy[/annotation] and then headed straight to Bhangra practice. since Bhangra was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an ... seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... want to ask isn't what matters, but what matters to me? if you haven ... true, but that doesn't mean you have to make a hasty one. then again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... completed applications (and 60 people started an app, but decided not to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020