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• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  whole lot easier said than done, but don't for a second doubt your worth ... to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... for the RA round, I’d like to share a bit about my mindset and what I ... , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  numbers for a century and a half now. It'll remain written as a Roman numeral for a long while. The numbers in this catalog are pretty much today ... "acquaintance with good literature". For literature, the catalog lists a whole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

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

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

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... random imo” “MIT: High Reach with a 710 Math score. Aim for a 760 ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... required courses, or that they can only handle three classes at a time for a ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let the chance experiences and adventures serve as a guide for what’s next ... planning things after work virtually impossible. For a while, I accepted

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  consider cross-registering for a Harvard class. The commute is only ten ... for the more ambitious (which makes for a total of 4,900+ options). You ... education. It’s great, really. (For a different blogger perspective, here’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of ... means that it is simultaneously a bridge for pedestrians, cars, and the ... closed to construction, and for a long time all you could see as you rode

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months ... had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... , you can inadvertently turn one of your sources into a drain for another

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about ... applications exist, will you be a different person for having spent a year at ... economics possible, and is a very useful bargaining chip for getting off of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... failing, that I was on track for a C (which I would hide behind P/NR), but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... really would be a more welcoming place for me, the future so full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight ... posted for privacy reasons someone who dressed up as a microwave chip ... the day someone dressed up as a corona beer who was too far away for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... this place yet?” It’s a fair question — I’ve been here for literally a ... for me, and I am glad. I grew a lot here, in many ways. At the same time

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... . Let's talk about number 2 for a little bit, because that's what really ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  listening to someone lay out a plan for the next week, and the overhead ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... [/caption] There is a small response due Wednesday for this class that involves

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021