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

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  plagued my thoughts for a while, but when I thrust myself into the world of ... ’m grateful for how supportive she is; even though she criticizes a significant ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• 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

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... extracurriculars. He was a varsity cross-country and track runner for his high school ... MIT for a long time, considering he's from Massachusetts. I guess maybe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... capacity for what really matters. But at a certain point, it's our job to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway ... emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will support

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this ... started getting sick. I lost weight. Which, for me, a 105 pound girl, was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  freaking amazing y'all and I really couldn't ask for a better place to be ... distancing. Fingers-crossed for returning to a much healthier Cambridge soon ... was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... browsing Facebook for an hour isn’t a huge failure. In the big, big, big ... look, here, I have a good explanation for why! So what if I’m less

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... still working for Company X after graduation, so I interned there for a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  planned contemplates not simply a gymnasium, not simply a building for ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... fuse, which is probably a metaphor for addressing my misconceptions about ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... ="i flirted with the idea of staying for grad school for a while, but ultimately ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , patience, and a little bit of tolerance for the seemingly endless stream of ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the ... a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... [annotation note="certainly not A, for “I’m doing great!”"]O, for Absence

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013