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  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information ... it or not, we are going to biased on everything - preferred classes ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it’s not ... way to start moving forward from a Pi Day that might not have gone the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... . The 7th station was not too far off, but I was starting to feel the fact ... . Lucky that I couldn't see anything - because if I had been able to see how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  this year's Hunt logistics, compare it to how a movie is developed and ... , do about the fact that our work are ephemeral? We look to how theater ... economy analysis of how media fandoms work. Acknowledgments Thanks to Ceri

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... , too, so it’s not as daunting as I initially thought.    To

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... not to you.      You may give them your love but not your thoughts ... , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.      You may strive to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... of people here as anywhere else: some friendly, some not, some nice to ... been, coming to Boston for the first time? How are people different here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... ’s not as if it’s his first book and he is dying to have an undergraduate ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  "became less likely to kill themselves"? They're not things I've learned how ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... our institutions. I remember wanting to not be changed, wanting to hold

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... , but we had to make unbelievably tough choices. I tell this story not ... you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as ... think it’s very not okay. I’m trying to be open-minded about courses of ... , I’m not about to lock myself in a hut in the woods and derive theorems

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... , six years have passed. In the last angles, the ones I try not to look at ... course, I know that’s not true, but it’s hard not to see the rosy idealized

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... career, maybe that means I'm not cut out to be a successful physicist? My ... ! *blah blah thoughts on RadioAstron that are not really important to this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012