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• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life ... Confidential is an online forum where parents and students discuss college ... see different ways to format mine. Predictably, that created perfect

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... from one to another, looking for free trials and showers. This usually ... [annotation note="the sophisticated European way to say it, as in 'theatre

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... experiences and the way being a Black woman has shaped their MIT experiences ... the ways that they affect people. (1:30) We always need more of this

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

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

  

  other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio ... . In some ways, it did the opposite. MIT is a place where things move ... sometimes felt like they were able to be that way in spite of MIT, not because

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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  name: Stacy Ann Ferguson. DID YOU KNOW? I bet Sam did.

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with ... the way things work. Nine. One of the things I valued so much about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  know where the building numbers are, you can navigate your way around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  .lab project was okay, and so on. I learned that: I had way more projects that ... did you like about it?" Which, by the way, was a question an interviewer ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... everything that would distract me. We had made a bet - if I didn’t get in, she ... sweatshirt and wore it that night, so they figured it out that way (I was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... forums, which I’m nervously excited for! I can imagine being here for a ... solo trips, it was a fantastic way to decompress. Hopping all around the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  number of communities for minorities here on campus about ways that we as a ... -algebra all the way up to Calculus III, with organized playlists for each ... with a focus on game development in Unity (Free Game Development Platform

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a scientist who changes the way science is taught... Something that ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  , because he was in any way deficient, but because the British army was too ... own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways ... absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  for being bold, taking charge, and leading the way. Utilize these ... advice. However, the best way to navigate the college process is to be open ... 't think you'd apply to, or being open to the way financial aid may influence

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  know because I wrote them). The only way it could've possibly been worse ... with style. A lot of us tend to think about things in ways that are ... kind of way, no matter what my current record might suggest): firstly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007