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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for ... and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... Knowing Things, it is still demoralizing when you need to be hand held for ... saying is that we are still pretty confused. Our plan is to take it one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  take notes. Your second class is having an exam, and it seems to be going ... are two more to take its place. Each one has more problems than the last ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , someone else in the house is, too. It’s also way more fun to do work around ... Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been ... support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : no we skipped it * * * ME: are you going to the activities midway ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  some people feel it. It just is that way to some people, and it's not ... an internal monologue. The thing about brains is that it's so easy to ... when I think about it, it still is. It's hard to imagine what my life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  talking to people, I stopped cleaning my room, and I got very lonely. It ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for ... the most of what is available to you.   3. Grad school was tough ... psets and semesters. Suddenly it’s your job to define the problems and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  that it tends to defy labels, anyway. What am I saying, here? What is ... journey I am. Applying to MIT is its own kind of journey. And I think the ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... because this class is really relaxed – it’s just not possible for my stress

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... it that one problem set due the next day? Is it the long to do list sitting on your desktop that refuses to get shorter? Is it a person that you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many ... seniors will be invited back to campus. For me, it is March 10th all over

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... time, I did. It kept me rooted still, fixed to the floor, listening to my ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . “It’s not a lie at all!” She said. To her, CPW is a very good representation of what MIT is like. “Think about it: if you come here to do ... Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  "It is my great pleasure to introduce -- Professor Moniz!" GAH! Another ... Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of ... with my class is really, really important to me, and it's been an ... communities. Burton-Conner is a dorm very dear to its residents and we will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . It is impossible to abstract out all of my emotions, my experiences ... horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016