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  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... they ended up and roll their eyes when reminded of how much they thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . Just remember and reflect. And if you’re up for it, share your most ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night. Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... . If you have time for only one Yultide post, stop reading this and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  where you end up is less important than that you choose it for yourself ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  for their pent-up creativity. Dorm pranks and mischief have been ... to work on making up for lost time. Even before the ’93 dorm ... his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  . A quick, functioning prototype for a foam wire cutter.  Mocked up ... process of generating and mocking up ideas, with only the last month focusing on building up an alpha prototype of one particular idea. Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ” for a while and not been productive. Just standing up from your seat ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... truly become my home. I have lived here, grown up here, and found family

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  of exploring. Being up for a good challenge. Embracing the awkward ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our ... a class so I ended up doing the same thing for all the other classes I ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  38 I wanted to take this fall, and gave up. I had room for four. This ... stress that just because astronomy ended up being the right decision for ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012