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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... things to do from 8am to 1am, all jam-packed into about seventy-five hours. Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is

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

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

  

  Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

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

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He ... to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... different curricula, or climates, or financial aid packages? Do they even want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... 't seem as terrible anymore. When I told my mom that we planned on doing

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

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

  

  ended up convincing me to do [annotation note=" Real analysis is offered ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  Rice (disclaimer: I *do* think the Rice-Baylor program is still awesome ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... intimidating (so much to do!) and very helpful. I've visited the pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week ... ,” I said. “Do you mind if I ask why?” (Sometimes we are able assure ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science. We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  Attending MIT. MEETING PEOPLE AND DOING THINGS When exchanging phone numbers ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends ... . Say yes to things. You will get asked to do many things. You should say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the ... started taking me longer to do, and I found myself playing catchup into the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing—here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  wanted to take his TV station national in 1979, he offered to donate $50 ... and the relative freedom (save for some FCC regulations) to do whatever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... reason, I do feel like sometimes saying "oh, yeah, I go to MIT" sounds

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra about doing it? And so, we have not one, but two completely separate sets ... the various opportunities and supports MIT has to offer. And there

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn’t have any such requirement. When I asked why he was doing it, he said it ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

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

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

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... 's Hawaiian Rolls. I hope he's doing okay."]right or wrong answers

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021