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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... long. Felt like forever to me, too, even thought it was only twenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  —undergrads and grad students alike! It is enough for every EC resident to eat over ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... snow? *(which is weird because I helped screw the supports together to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to ... before it. I actually feel so close to this team. I have so much warmth and ... its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my ... extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it ... than an undergrad application essay. It is your one place to explain

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the ... minds. It is not a cheap, easy, or quick thing to do. It requires ... States, you need to go to Harvard. That's the way it is." —Robo-CJ Extended

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  best way to know if you'll like a class is to take it. "Shopping" is the ... your friends taking? It is generally a good idea to take classes with your friends! It gives you more time to hang out with them, which is good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two ... realize that it counts the same as an F, and your GPA is tanked yet again ... just an F until you fix it. Luckily, there is a third (more reasonable

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

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide ... to fix it, but it's not like falling and scraping my knee where my body

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn't necessarily mean people know what it is--or vice versa. What was most surprising

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... blazed by others. It is essential, therefore, that students who aspire to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  healthier than it used to be, we want to share it: As difficult as it is to ... seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to ... attract people from many backgrounds and worldviews to apply. It is the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  hear back on an offer. However, it is stressful to go on LinkedIn and see ... is crucial to getting a full-time position. it sucks that things are ... 's four years of job applications. However, it is generally understood that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  think it's often overlooked how easy it is to graduate high school without ... Cowell; you have learned to learn and love everything, and it is absolutely ... who ultimately decides what to do with it. Ask yourself what it is about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long ... included because I want to make sure you are aware of this. I think it is ... ). Some people do not, and may even wish to harm you, or even if it is not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018