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  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... understand economies at scale — i.e., exactly the kind of work I’d be doing at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... analysis of the sword at the beginning. When I finished the hilt and roughed ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... sunday’s thread who reminded me of this quote"]“To love at all is to be ... “work” in general. One of my clearest memories at MIT comes from a group

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... until around the second week of classes, life at MIT was so chill that it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my ... most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  feel relieved, and also nothing at all. Of course, the last year has been ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... jobs and other things you're doing. My favorite rule of thumb: do at ... you're taking has a final exam, but you should at least be aware of it

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

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... be an idea around MIT that while at MIT you could only pick two of ... requirement later down the road. There are a lot of good classes at MIT, and it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  granddaughter of this girl I thought was really cute and our characters hugged at ... should be made as often as possible (of course not to imply that I have at ... entered 15 or 20 of these over the span of a year and won at least some

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers ... applicant, you think that MIT is “out of your league” because you looked at a ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  location would be a great change of scenery. I could see myself being at home ... decision process has at least given me a vague idea of what I don’t want to ... DAVE: there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020