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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... read about you, care about you, and get to know you - almost as if I ... getting to read every story, learn about every person, and feel as though I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• 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 ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  to save that part before I closed out), but I’ve learned how to right ... prototypes out of foam, then later 3D printed them. I’ve learned how to ... .0001[/annotation] to code that. How many hours is this battery going to last us? I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much ... could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a single now, as all East Campus residents get to live past freshman year

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... undergrad. Similar to when I left my family in Denver, I didn't realize how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... entirely, but it does get harder to go to grad school. If I decide to go to ... guarantees about if I’d be able to get it back. The choice between

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... admissions] made a mistake." As a peer to these prefrosh, I'm stressed - and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  time to get work done and oftentimes I found myself just wandering around ... questions that were just really hard that I didn't know how to answer. I ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... borrowed a car and drove me to the airport two hours later. I learned how to ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... the opportunity, but rather to fully capitalize on it. As much as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  impossible to get into a top med school without research from MIT (I know many ... have in the comments about being premed and I will get back to you. :) ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I ... , reminding me constantly of the time then and who I used to be. I wanted to get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  factors. I'm still learning how to write up data analyses and say coherent ... scientific method and learn how to come up with good hypotheses. But I ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020