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  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 ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... least partly captured in our ceiling tiles. Below are the ceiling tiles in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee ... in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  final projects. My only exam was in 6.034 (artificial intelligence ... seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair. I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in

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

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... was saddened as I walked down the Infinite Corridor, had lunch in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

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

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

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied, because he was in any way deficient, but because the British army was too

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

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

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind ... ’re deferred, and you get trapped in an endless purgatory, living in torturous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• 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 ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Grad schools come in a lot of different flavors—med school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018