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

  

  him there getting all excited every time I’d get to a new practice ... start getting up in arms about not getting to stay at MIT, keep in mind ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... : Boring 101 Honors Boring How to Be Pretentious Polo Shirts (Intro

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... Building 10 to the Charles River, cutting the dome in half. This line points ... continue that line across the street, you get to Building 46. Branching off

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• 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

  

  Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around ... ’ll never get anywhere. Just accept that you’re going to be in many pictures ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week ... schedule meant I could obtain more money-yielding jobs. I added 1 to see how

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from ... homeless in a new country.  When you get your ETH email, forward your ... -Mobile. Finally, meet with the house responsible and check in to your new room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm ... -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• 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 ... about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... also super convenient to many, such as those who require more food in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... family and high school prepare people poorly in this regard, largely due to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take ... creative community, decided to take me in. I'm excited for what's in store

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  night in Boston. After getting new boarding passes, I then realized that ... how they manipulated me into believing I have to get everyone’s approval ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020