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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  to be worried about not being smart enough. Until you're so old you ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  Pennsylvania. I realized it wouldn’t be any different if I went to school there ... maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as ... problems if you decide to work in a lab. Maybe the most important thing you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  you don't fail any classes, simply -1 from your MIT GPA to find the ... around CPW, which I consider to be overly optimistic to the point of ... out the parts of the original article that I believe to be correct, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... repercussions to the way Facebook has handled their privacy policies, yet he ... this technology is going to go in the future? Alls I know is, being at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material ... matter. For college to be worth it. If all you want to do is learn stuff, you can go to the library and check out textbooks for free. If, on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... you aren’t the president. It could be the opposite – if you stretch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes and if I'm ultimately smart enough to take the classes I want in the ... want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. The conversations end ... , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  right? :) (If Ms. Cleary happens to be reading this, um, well, hi. Look ... , AP exams fees are reduced but not obliterated, and I’d love to meet the ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  together with the $15 APPLICATION FEE made payable to "M.I.T." Include the ... stamp is sure to be appreciated. 7. If you think you may need financial ... forms Aside from the application form needing to be typewritten or written

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  split the loot between the three of us, you know, being all polite even if ... from leaving Hogwarts. So if you wanted to go to the Whomping Willow, you ... ? Neville was supposed to be good at combat. I started the game with 5 HP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... the time that I didn’t have to be around other people, I would retreat ... were days that I just couldn’t handle being there and I wanted to leave

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , if one can call 2 years a moment. It’s interesting to note all the ways ... , reminding me constantly of the time then and who I used to be. I wanted to get it over with, but I also wanted to be smart and spend time reviewing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  weekend seemed to be more popular with the students, with quotes like "I ... to be hosted, and 80% wanted to live in a dormitory. On the other hand ... afford to, and that they were hoping the next year would be for all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  calculus -- and why? Not because I had grown to understand that being smart was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates ... like the learning style, but there would be less content to learn and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... (course 3) I’ll be going to [starting fall 2013] grad school at the ... across the country, going to art festivals and hacker conferences, being an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... compliments, be compassionate to everyone in the service industry. Even though ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  probably be called Adjustment is a Process. The subtitle would be Give ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  facing the ocean, know that you’ll never be able to look into the eyes of ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  -fed Pockets contracting to expel trapped prey into the pits of higher up pockets ... what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and ... ." Critters that scale the Stack in search of water or bugs to eat can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020