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• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept ... both: people who have gone to grad school, but now work in industry, or ... 5 or 6 years, assuming all goes well, will lead to a Ph.D. in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy ... , usually trying to complete a challenging problem set, or studying for an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3 ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... MIT's challenges). Here's a few things to keep in mind as you begin

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant, I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it ... 'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s going to catch you. Two. Most people left last Saturday or Sunday. It ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Pont to help with checking in students. There was around two dozen or so ... an hour or so, I left morning check-in and headed to the first class I ... things I didn’t know I was interested in. I wanted to learn about all of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  light in your room replaced or when you want permission to paint your room ... translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to ... , we were let back in, but our floor smelled like smoke for two or three ... all this food to myself. I like to [annotation note="In the beginning of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview ... professors, whether it's in an academic context like office hours or running ... in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... predecessor to the larger Women's Weekend held two years later, in 1984. In an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  Cambridge, random strangers will heckle me in rude or vulgar ways related to ... who sometimes receives angry or negative comments, I try to take it in ... to someone--my mother, a friend--or just sit in the library around

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  : you have to make them, in a sense. If there’s a particular department or ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... terms you may hear in college. It also may reference emotionally or ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... -off (or the other way around; I only recall it being in succession), and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the ... obstacle to attain victory in a glorious prank war. And a friend who listened

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  . Consider whether you want to live on a floor (e.g. Random or Maseeh) or in a ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... have different sub-cultures (e.g. in East Campus or Simmons), or if the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018