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  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  :30am and 3am. While not always effective, when I need to do something, I ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  learn the material in your classes, but you will also learn how to manage your time, how to study efficiently, and how to use your resources ... will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... . And it’s not a cop-out or anything to say this, right? It’s okay if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... swim: Get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic.My classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The ... 't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... ' Guild game and how I got dragged to a square dance class by a hallmate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... , not less.) I actually did go to IHOP and a few frats, played Super Smash ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... ’s probably not that useful, not really. What is useful is being able to swap ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... development cycle, learning from beginning to end how to create, design, pitch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  wanted to go is terrifying. Worse yet, think how much more traumatic ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch ... not already important to you, it will become important to you. F

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  is totally not worth it. You have to take eight HASSes anyways, it's not like you're going to run out of opportunities to take free ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical ... around) are available to undergrads conveniently. MIT applicants not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... my aquarius friends/family members is their ability to not internalize ... think about what you'd want them to include in your letters and gauge how

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• 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…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... driven people, for perfectionists, for [annotation note="Not to @ literally

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  best things that ever happened to me. I realized that a person is NOT ... -and-such happened, at how common it was that important milestones seemed to be incited ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  over it for not knowing how to utilize these tools from the start. I can ... we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us ... going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  you did or did not list on your college applications or how awesome you ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I ... . To be completely frank, I did not expect to get into MIT. Around my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  . Lament over not having any time to do problem set. 7:35 PM: Teaching ... teaching approaches and what not to do while attempting to inhale dinner and ... see how dedicated their children are to their problem sets) as Lauren

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007