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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  learn and be challenged here, even if, to paraphrase a comment I saw in an ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... [top college], it'll all be great. I won't have to worry anymore." I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  . Go to a movie, go bowling, do something. The mail will be there when ... started applying to college. I went into the whole process knowing that I ... of state laws. Back in TX, if you were in the top 10 percent of your

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through ... , and the various memorabilia associated with my school. if i ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it ... look out my window and to the left; if I look straight ahead, all I see ... summer and head off to what I think will be one of the best weeks of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  . We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  MyMIT. If you call the office, we may be able to have someone ... would be wonderful if you could locate the June 2006 report and add it to ... /engineering. If you are sending in portfolio work to be reviewed, please note that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  admitted to. And if I hadn't chosen MIT, I probably would have chosen the ... be saying that too if I had gone to Stanford, or UPenn, or anywhere ... don't feel any need to defend myself. If I think back to the decision I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  and they reconsidered whether it was the best time to be building a new ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... /herself) having gone to the Institute. After several study and work abroad

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  final show, where the viewers have to call in their votes. It would be ... votes for the one they deem to be the next great American Inventor and ... not to sign a contract to appear on MTV's The Real World: Boston (season

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If ... be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we ... Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... thing MIT has taught me, it’s that failing doesn’t have to be forever. In ... freaked out (I’d be fooling nobody if I told you I wasn’t the slightest bit

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  handle the foundation before you move on to what you really care about. As ... be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... the morning and put you to bed at night, you might be singing a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  living with your friends, being able to just walk down the hall, knock on ... won't be able to have that with some of my friends anymore. for the first couple of weeks, i was trying to be Cool (although failing

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  handle the class, not me. If you want to sign up for something that you ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to ... still work there, and it's actually turning out to be the activity at MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  , I think that's awesome! But it'd be great if you could link to your ... to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... what if you aren’t smart enough? What if you fail? What if you weren

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  transfer the payment to the credit card. And if you can't trust yourself to ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly ... the future. There's no need to be too stressed. 3. Remember that a life ... 'll have the smarts, skills, and mindset that I need to leave a permanent

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  helpful to be able to practice handling stressful situations in a controlled ... to be comfortable with in future years. On Tuesdays from 3:10-5:10 pm ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009