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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  time to check in with myself and do a vibe check on how I’m doing. This ... and help keep it in check. What is your go-to pick me up after a long ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  Memorial Day, I had a whirlwind four days in the office before leaving again ... -fed at every turn. Even though I lived in Berkeley and Oakland for over a ... ! Mad props to Stanford students - if I lived in a place that cool I'm not

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... , since I think it's a great idea. "Fellow commenters, what say you we post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  felt like a gentler version of what I experienced in 16.07; rather than ... [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in ... a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  , before I’d acted in a way that defined me. There’s this reading I did at ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ’ve literally never had a good physics lecturer before, so I should be doing ... before and I am honestly kinda spooked"]obnoxious.[/annotation]  # A brief ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... he'd taken me on a tour of their office while I was in the Bay Area ... he'd recommended me for a customer support job in what would become the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... ; it's just bringing to mind what a banana looks like. I have never ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... invested in you so I write a gazillion nice things about you in your summary ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of people who've been in a class for three weeks before realizing they weren ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... ) Instructor who, after I received a lowest-in-class grade for a presentation ...   In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  dont know what i should feel about myself, if my solution to a thing like ... , obvious, but it really wasn't something I did before, not in any serious ... : But what about the art? Matt: Sharks. Sharks on a Plane. Wayne: I like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  . When I showed David and Ali a draft of what I had written a day before ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors ... of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021