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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order to earn this grade or gain admission?  Do what you are capable of. ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  were waiting to ask if I got in or not, and then they were crying, too ... wasn't able to tell if I was crying cause I got in or not, until I ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... semester, or at least more socially acceptable in a sense. Instead of having ... , trying to decide between multiple projects or knowing who you should work

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... due to excitement or awkwardness. When I’m really mad, however, I swear ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... ...7. (or 9, or 10B)" HIM: "What do you want to do after you graduate ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ’d have to describe it in a more roundabout way, or simply not at all. The ... simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... , but because in their worlds, they never have to practice that ability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  materials and doubling in courses 8 and 3, or wanting to become a filmmaker ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later! 21W.755 This past weekend, my homework assignment was to eavesdrop (or ... ) and so I’m glad that I’m in this class, both because I really wanted to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in ... recover. Usually anomalies are constrained to two or three “Hell Weeks” per semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... incredibly rejuvenating when used correctly. In fact, this seems to be the answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as ... room and found my bed to be covered in playing cards, inside and out

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  thoughts. I wouldn't even reread or edit my papers, just turn them in and ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... something that's better than what used to be there before (which in my case

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011