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  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and ... CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  HARDBALL. Ask current students anything, and you'll be able to get a good ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  , they exceeded their maximum occupancy and had to close at 11:30 to get ... toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  sophomore blogger will get to blog Ring Premiere! So I must admit, I didn ... and get to wear them for 3 extra months before we do!) Either Snively ... time getting back to us about everything, but finally we got things

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to ... the point that it gets confusing to decide where to go. This is why it ... students! As an undergrad, you get access to the Infinite Connection portal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  bargaining didn't get me very far, and it became pretty clear I'd have to make ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and ... constantly provide good content to get the serotonin hits we all need. Another ... Internet. I think it's really easy to get lost in everything. I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  asking if anyone would like to get some burritos before they close. Kevin ... , because I get to combine sci-fi and horror, two very blendable genres, but ... ,234 words, and decide to get some rest, and start again tomorrow, when my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . Every day, I am grateful that I get to spend time around them and spend ... only do you move on to campus earlier and get more time to get acquainted ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a ... because most people aren’t taking classes. For a month, we get to catch up ... blogs). Bloggers get (almost) free range to write about their personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further ... finally take the time to walk to the art store and get the PSET notebook I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... -income students get into top-tier colleges. Paul credits some of his success to O ... pleasure for her because not everyone gets an opportunity to go," Paul said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... get a sense of who the candidate is, and why they want to go to MIT. One ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in ... responsible for getting ready for senior day this weekend, so we decided to ... — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh ... get closer to them throughout the semester, and to finally meet them in ... emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... teammates about whatever I couldn’t figure out on my own. I started to get ... internship, or come back to school with valuable industry experience if I did

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016