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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , which he considered his dream school. A few weeks later, however, he was ... deposit, or another school halfway across the country where I'd been ... to one of my favorite high school teachers who had graduated from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  dream school. Like many of the current EA 2022s, I was excitedly making ... expressed in the following analogy. For me, high school was a lot like rowing ... marked on it - MIT, my dream school. As we all know, I did eventually make

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  scientific, political, and business aspects." The laboratory, which is ... surprisingly, is popular and draws in members. During the school year, the group ... school's industrious mascot. Students are known to serve hot cocoa during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... prospective students - showing them what the school I love is like, and maybe ... staggering other array of readers ranging from my old grade school teachers to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last ... . I was too busy celebrating the New Year. ;) I hope you're still

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If ... whether they have been accepted at a certain school or not.  I don ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  five-year grad school experience! Then I walked out of the empty building ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... to my school once to give a lecture, and I could totally tell that ... ? But what makes this old man think of school today? Well, I've been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... attends a school called Peer Institution. Rachel A. ‘17 An unpopular policy ... acid. MIT is a steaming pile of muck. The smell of the once-great school

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  after you're done with school. College will keep you so busy, and you ... a fake persona when school is already challenging enough. Unironic ... train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... , it has to be extremely hot: between one and two thousand degrees ... : Slugfest has cocoa every school night at 11 pm. Since this is the second last

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  degree requirements"] unlimited units policy.[/annotation] This post will ... opposed to going to med school when I find disease so fascinating"]9 ... ="I took four years of Spanish but I haven't used it since high school so I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  landscaper in high school it was my job to become physically exhausted. There ... 't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on ... internally inconsistent or erratic, at least for highly selective schools, is

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

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... , students from schools deemed lower quality are given a number a points, a handicap, in order to compete with students with access to better schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... Israel succeeds in business despite its size and learned about the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... you're in the business of dying your hair a neon color, CPW's the place

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  negative ridiculous degrees outside, plus wind chill. And so I weighed the ... , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  business hours access to the shop, but we needed the help of Mike Skuhersky ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017