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• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  general, I would recommend putting this in the Question 14 (" ... wasn't sure he would get to it in time, so I gave it to another ... .   I will check back in a few times over the weekend -- but not all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing ... here in Boston. And then the third, the fourth....etc. Why exactly I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  coming to MIT. I was invested in writing things that other people would ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary ... 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... cards. I made sure to write down what I added to the cards I customized

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... . I'm talking about you, /massachusetts-institute-technology. In my ... ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... ”, Urban Studies and Planning --I know someone that would respond “Majoring in 5 and 7, with minors in 9 and 14”. Translation: “I’m crazy.” Well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I would never join. In addition to this, I've been making an effort ... process it. In December, I dual booted my laptop to run both Windows and Ubuntu, but decided I would never ever touch Ubuntu again after fiddling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  fully that I would only seriously approach a small number of them. In ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  would disown sophomore college me for this. But I promise you, 9ams in ... , which I filled out. I wasn’t sure if anything would come in the mail, but ... am horrible at push-ups. I would never make it in the army for that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... in awe. I’d met many brilliant people at MIT before, but W.M. was on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a ... 've always had students send in information about cool projects that they were

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  would be admitted in the transfer process, but I personally know folks who ... wondering what actually goes on during it? In other words, what am I missing ... .mit.edu doesn't have built-in preview functionality, so I usually post once and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... summer, I've kept my summer goals in a markdown file in a Github repo. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020