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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... , but you'll have to hold your breath for high tide. Every time the waves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... right before they came out, checked, felt happy, went back to sleep for a ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  original task was to see if this same logic would hold for stimulating ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... does. But because of COVID-19, my ability to run an in-person study where

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... building across, as though afraid to head there for a Biology Final it hadn ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... lecture (more than once (for an entire semester)) b) I decided not to do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  strangers; stay in touch either in person (come visit us!) or online (please ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about ... afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... with pertinent information! K: Nat's going to be a TA for this. More of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  mentioned for free online, if you want to have an idea of the state of physics ... accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to ... Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... agonizing over whether I could afford to buy orange juice. (The answer was ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  the person he became, but I didn’t want to focus on the bad person he ... my love and appreciation for Avatar to another level because the ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... Workbar   I usually only go to Central for art supplies, so it's fun ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .042: Mathematics for Computer Science  (2) 6.08: Introduction to EECS via ... field trips and buy things for your projects using a budget. The class ... . After going online last semester they worked extremely hard for all of us

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  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 ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... born and nominated for an Oscar. An entire person came into the world and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... shape wide-reaching policy and to advocate for undergraduates was a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021