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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... called Echogen Power Systems in Akron, OH. That fall I flew to the ... to buy orange juice if I want to.  Removing the financial stress leaves

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be ... . If you do these three things, you will be applying sideways to MIT ... . If you do well in school, you will be smart and prepared for an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top ... major I should be able to take the “hard” track of two different math ... . I was a math major; I should be able to do the problems. She said, I

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . On the bright side, though, those obligations can also contract to fit ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go ... 'd actually be a paragraph in a giant book about the Taj Mahal. I had to take a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... seem to be flirting with multiple people or not. If you are good at not ... now need to decide what you want. Obviously, the hard part is only if

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  message to its own channel, called the haiku log. The point is that it ... whenever you have a large text dataset, the immediate response should be to ... to be The only vegetables are the ones that are in the meal plan being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  the lab, suggested to me, “It would be cool if you could make this more ... if I could get something to work in the 4ish days before the deadline ... come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  concerns about if I would be able to contribute meaningfully to the house ... to a quad. I was worried about how I'd handle the decreased privacy ... , a meal would be made and devoured. I signed up to be on the cook team

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  asks you if you'd like to make them up any time before the end of the ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... Anonymous - "Keep breathing. if you had the guts and the grit to apply here ... , someone else will be failing at the same task. Every time you fail, someone

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  conclusion that I wanted to be home. The realization hit me like a train: if I ... -exhibiting part of my brain knew how hard this was to admit, even if the emotion ... least three people to contact if I felt I was floundering was the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online ... lives more difficult than they need to be. I failed that test and it ... 's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United ... . Sometimes, we will be too far to grab the hands of those who were bashed by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  the MIT population, so be warned. --- To all incoming MIT freshmen ... /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester ... will be the semester when you're handling a tough courseload, but also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of ... in the clubs i was in. all i had to do was be patient, to wait for the ... mit. i also found the freedom to fail or do average or say [annotation

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  to the real world, etc. I used Content: Insightful if the reason ... stress. Larry encouraged the class to be creative which really showed in my ... was going to be OK. He's a great guy and I'm glad I had the opportunity

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  a Division of Humanities. The committee report called for it to be a ... Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical ... elements studied in groups. To be fair, Mendeleev's version of the periodic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in different states, even if the appointments were virtual. my ... ," asked claire, "if you wanted to go against the wind?" "you don't," said ... degrees to go the other direction, was called tacking. there were nuances to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022