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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... long time, since my obsession with learning how to properly throw cards ... thanks to Eric ‘16 who pushed me the whole way). Not only was it great fun

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  conversations, but how they felt. Not so much the people I talked to, but the ... always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going to choose to be happy, choose not to overload yourself with coursework

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  , telling myself to study, and telling myself to not give up. My parents act ... lecture (more than once (for an entire semester)) b) I decided not to do ... more NOT going to lecture than I would have if I attended. I ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or ... yourself (not that I ever really need any more excuses to laugh at myself ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  . My goal is not to scare or put down or invalidate anyone who has ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... think it's often overlooked how easy it is to graduate high school without ... . I'm certainly not trying to pawn off my indecision entirely on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  ), but I am excited about the prospects. I am ready to leave, but not so ... Harvard, or why you should not go to Caltech. The simple answer is just that ... : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  not resubmit anywhere else to avoid another semester of brimstone and ... ensuing shock and deformation. Learning how to truly take care of and be ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... , someone who knows their stuff, but not in a way that when you ask how you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  and not interesting enough to be more than a parenthetical at the end of ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  stay up the nights before tests, stressing about not knowing how to ... when you have more work than you know how to handle – yet. When that ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  [annotation note ="froshy: /frɑʃi/. adj., sometimes but not always pejorative. To act ... 't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  .                                                        (Shanghai's Suzhou River) I asked my mother how to say “Sorry, I’m American ... most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016