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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  only difference is that the giant corporation has a large staff and a lot ... you won't have to pay off every month. The only downside is that you ... , which is not a school. —Robo-CJ getting a car from the same manufacturer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a ... the trends. The end product got a lot of press, and I was asked to join

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me ... walk around and talk to reps from the companies in a desperate attempt to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  and wishing there was someone for me to just exist with. I’ve found the best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... suggestion of setting or theme, but the one rule is to create something with a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... , and that I left campus to visit them every now and then. I went on a few ... didn't listen to all the advice I was given. I realize now that there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most ... to your room to cry last semester and said the same thing to you? You

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  and recut the lengths that were slightly off to ensure everything was ... enough to be used as a bouldering wall, and the routesetters used the ... everything and give away all of the wood we used, that was a lot of work too

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  textbook: "It is not at all unusual to find that the adjustment of a single ... name Senior House is now used, and the catalog writes that it used to be ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... the care of a psychiatrist. His health took a hit after that, and he ... the administration and complaints and choosing a place to live in, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  ;Fill out the forms to acquire a visa and mail my passport to the Swiss ... or Informatik students to ask what the courses are like and hope that ... exchangers in a group chat who are also going through the same struggles and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  sameness and difference is the duality that mediates all admissions work ... is more than a job. That's the tradeoff every admissions professional ... boots. Where the wind blows and the snowflakes start to fall is only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  room. However, there is a narrow, uneven, paved parking spot next to the ... 's rendering, I rented a UHaul and drove to Home Depot, the same one from which ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... apply only to women and people of color; the same mechanism is thought to ... caught on that there’s a little bit more to this picture (why would a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  best things that ever happened to me. I realized that a person is NOT ... Course 14, and I just filled out the application to pursue a secondary ... requirements of the classes, and hell I learned a lot of material that term, but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... astrological world refer to geminis as the two-faced sign, and I think that ... well-balanced and well-researched. However, there is no such thing as a

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  . Genuinely care about the places you apply to, and if you do find that a ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... there, a Penn Quaker, soaking sun in the quad and screaming cheers in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... prefrosh alike, the correct answer to that question is... "There is actually ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006