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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play ... not a strictly complete description of the philosophy at hand; in fact ... , or lack of interest, because at least that would've told me something

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  juicy new details about the application experience. Here goes: Prologue ... physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , that at the end of the day I didn't win one, so I was not as smart as my ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . At the end of the day, you'll be better for it. Be the kind of person ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  're meeting with one of the dorm Heads of House to discuss a new initiative that ... at midnight. Oops.) At the end of class, we get our midterms back, and ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  summer? At once, it's all of these, and none of these. We could talk about ... Museum. Or I can give you a tour of the office I'm interning at, which ... tour of the spiffy new admissions office, which has a lot of snacks. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  writing yet at that point, but I ended up throwing together a slideshow of ... down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... jobs and other things you're doing. My favorite rule of thumb: do at ... you're taking has a final exam, but you should at least be aware of it

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  depicts the emotion of NOT HAVING IT… because I most certainly was not at ... one of my friends Charlotte M. 20’ was presenting at!!! Good thing there ... sure that at least that part of our presentation got heard! All of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  back at these 10 years, several lessons stand out to me. Some of them, I ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014