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• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  .) i tell my supervisor about how i have not been able to solve the ... should be doing. my supervisor tells me that she also does not know how to ... [annotation note="i'm not vegan, but i am lactose intolerant, and i swear to god

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  you do? Well, here's what I can tell you. We're not going to reject you ... the online application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your ... have not taken and did not plan to take physics, which i think you had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  awesome, but I'm not sure how one would be able to take such a tour. Maybe ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  's not too big of a deal if I don't take it now. I'd love to take 8 ... given my new ideas about what I want to do with my life, it may or may not ... affect economic development; and how American politics compares to that of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  to my native language. Here, Will and Kristina talk about how they ... Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... surprise at how much I knew. But after coming back from that 2 week trip to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  write, because it is open-ended, and I usually am not expected to reflect ... publishing houses. Keywords, supposed to, because it's May now and I'm not yet ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  comes to Decisions, both yours and… y’know… not yours. See with this ... try not to be, but my brain just likes to poke and prod and ask "what if instead you had chosen to not do *insert thing that became a fundamental

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  shot. Our idea was to power the car using a galvanic cell. To control how ... to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... %. However, I would also advise you not to limit yourself. A lot of people come

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... "Replace every instance of 'MIT' with 'UC'. That night, I had decided to not ... you to all these colleges, you are not giving parts of yourself to these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day ... fears do not really grow. It is just a new day, and we should be able to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  count is the measure, not space. :-) "I know how MIT likes to see ... fine - we'll be listening to your guitar playing, not your recording ... : "My teachers' evaluations are "Not Processed" according to my My

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the screen, college fairs are not meant to be stressful. They’re meant ... on how well you pitch yourself (you don’t need to be pitching yourself ... ) available to answer any questions you might have.Outreach TripsWhile not

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... offered at MIT, how do I want to spend my free time? How do I want to ... facts about a discipline. MIT teaches you how to apply relevant knowledge

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... a transcript, but it is not true when it comes to challenging yourself ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  "]procrastination.[/annotation]  Not to count all the times it’s helped me stay up to date with ... current situation, I’ve gotten to see how our online communities have been ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... blogging was not always this fancy -- I put my Course 14 skills to good use ... and sent them to Matt McGann. You know, the usual: a cappella concerts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... , because why not! will follow a similar format to Alan's post :) poems (18 ... ..."]YOLO."[/annotation] The Poems That Taught Me How to Love about Pablo Neruda's poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  they choose not to share anything of substance, we have a lot less to ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... second just reminded me how it's never too late to be in charge of what you ... things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... who are waitlisted should do — then deciding whether or not to stay on ... than they had been before they went off to college. My grandfather has

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009