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  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 ... most seven things per semester. I don't know where I originally heard ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in ... collapsed onto my seat, breathing out in exhaustion. “Classic Vincent,” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

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

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... [annotation note="Typing why like this reminds me of Christian school where I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not even sure why I took organic chemistry, since I was interested in math

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide ... expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  classes where I can’t actually apply the material or don’t feel motivated ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... 't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  where they are now. In fact, I think I’m extremely privileged. I have supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus ... penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... remembering but in knowing constant as the bleak walls, the bleak windows where

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011