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  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  cook together and go to Target (married life! it is exciting!). We also ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  there was such a bridge: he asked simply for two tetrahedra that together ... the result to three example tetrahedra. Two of these tetrahedra together ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  MIT going through the ups-and-downs together—to make the world a much ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  to fuse together at their main opening. Somehow, the fused Pockets are ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  got to chat with one another and play a mean game of “Go Fish” while the ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... shared together, it becomes a lot harder to create the same kind of social ... accountability plans and design a system to place frosh in SCUFFYs. We put together

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... many Black women – women who have had to overcome many intellectual and ... . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  gives you the confidence to take risks. A lot of MIT is fun and games, but ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  thought about how much fun it would be to go to college together. This is ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005