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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... is, by the way, a great party theme) become a fractal master: how ... class ranking. we procrastinate. sometimes a lot. every college is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... our flight is a blur, mostly because I slept. When I woke up, we were ... I got a free catus. His name is Jim, and he's currently hanging out

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack ... haven't even happened yet. You're not a picture of yourself. Your life is ... communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  do complain about them a lot, though. 2. Mushal asked how the biology ... how students follow a premedical track when there's no official "premed ... . 5. Christina asked how familiar I am with the AAAS. I am a member

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... that I was at work at 7 AM and asked how much sleep I get. First, I ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  , not recorded Which are both pretty much okay, since you’re a freshman ... to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have ... ! Motivation is always a struggle (though hopefully proclaiming this out loud

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  around? Is MIT really like this caricature? Well... yeah, sort of. It's a ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good ... students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  , which is very cool (and a bit scary)! Although there are still a few kinks ... numbering system (although using a large language model like Gemini is ... sniped me like that, but it made me wonder how much Gemini knows about MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  actually, it has an answer: how about BRUCE CAMPBELL DOING A BOOK SIGNING AT ... Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I ... is. But, uh, this is a lesson, prospective MIT students--never attempt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  matter how late or early the hour. What that also means is that when you ... ” in how they think of this house says a lot about the comfort they feel ... This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... I am every day. This is all a really long way of saying two things ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  how much effort to put into understanding a subject also came up in 18 ... too much. Taken on top of a UROP and my extracurriculars, I definitely ... note="is it because I’m a serial procrastinator? maybe

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid floating in a fluid (which is what we’ve been talking about for two weeks

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie ... (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... .[/caption] I never talked much about Jewishness as a blogger, because I was in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we ... Professional Practices, May 1 is the "National Candidates Reply Date," the agreed ... , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  score is high and you are a good writer so you will probably be fine.” Man ... -sounding extracurriculars!” But come on, you are still a teenager; it is okay to have ... application process is a process of persuasion. The college application process

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  again. “How do you find jobs that are useful?” This is a question I ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless ... . My mom is a computer engineer, and while I don’t understand all the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a ... lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009