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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i ... , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  tell us in the essays. Think about why you are applying to MIT. Do a ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  enough to get in the first time, you’ll improve by participating in ... wanted to be in Techiya, not because they wanted to be in the Chorallaries ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to work so hard was horseback riding. She goes to Our Day Farm in Elgin six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... to discuss sex and learning about ways to engage in enjoyable and ... Offered By MIT Medical Free and Readily Available to Everybody (walk-in, no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an ... and we'll get back to you.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... based in Madrid. They asked me to come visit them at the European Career

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in ... did what was needed to get a bachelor's in computer science. I ... passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023