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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  enough, all kinds of plants seem to adopt tree form. I talked about how ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... all sampled the different flavors, and a few people took the half-empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  to when I retrieved their data, not the living group and department ... privacy of the people wearing the underwear, I am not going to tell you what ... , not a guarantee. But there’s an element of chance to everything, right

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ="102817" image2="102818" /] Wang Fitness Center Located in [annotation note='not to ... available, and it’s harder for me to make excuses to not go. At night, when ... intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... , and no matter how hard you try you cannot seem to unsubscribe from it ... invariants. You’re not even sure the proofs are correct. You go to your HASS

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy ... learned that the cast members were told not to eliminate anyone but just get ... not going to be the most helpful at Next Haunt. This was proven true

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... stress and fear about if I’m going to graduate and how I (can’t) afford

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  working person. It’s just hard to not feel disadvantaged when you ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... student said, “They should know that it’s not going to be this awesome all

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how ... . I entered the first lecture not really knowing what to expect, but I ... hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  into an empty hallway?” To be fair, this has been entirely self ... . But that’s not an excuse to forget the dreams, passions, goals and ... teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  might make my words seem empty. Obviously my life is set up to be perfect ... who knows how many companies I've applied to that haven't even taken the ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  how you best learn. This is okay. Go to class. Even if you’re not ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually ... as the semesters pass. Try not to end up with many more than 1 or 2 if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making ... that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... explaining "Chechnya Is Not the Czech Republic”, next to immigration debate ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... going to be chosen and complaining about how more should be invited etc ... unit would measure. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but it was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016