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• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... heat. Below me my bed had decided to become a rock. I honestly have no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... mile! (while hard to see, there's a banner that says "Go Sox" suspended

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy, really good dessert place), which would be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  't been to a CPW. I am so, so ready for CPW 2022. ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... merged to a single Campus Preview weekend. It was held [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually

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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... income. I would bring nothing but a $20 bill with me to the supermarket to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... -quality, glossy paper led to a wider palette of colors. Collectors started buying ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012