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

  think about what you'd want them to include in your letters and gauge how ... successful in college is learning how and when to rely on your support system ... thought about how much fun it would be to go to college together. This is

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  '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 ... management and take ideas from there to see how we can better improve our app

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  friend, to walk out of your dorm room now and genuinely ask how the person ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the ... . I wouldn’t know how to respond when they asked me why, so I’d say ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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 ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much ... could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... also exhaust the metacognitive functions that allow you to assess how ... to understand how awesome they actually were. Part of being your own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes, [like] 18.100B/Real Analysis, to see how well I can do on difficult ... : A: Why do you want to take so many classes? Me: Because that's how my ... , and how many hours classes are supposed to take based on course

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... bearings and figure out how to use public transportation (the “T”). I started ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  this really how I want to spend the rest of my life? Ultimately, it was ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound ... truly be kind, to be intentionally kind and a good friend? How does one go

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  under the current administration—speaks volumes as to how we see humanity ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... might have been my intent when I tried to go to UCLA, because that’s how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... just how wild it is to be here, living this moment as opposed to the one ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  Zoom dinner with them to check in and see how they're doing.   ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... , my dream is that all of my trainees go on to succeed. How to work with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from ... appropriately titled, "How to Deal with the Challenges of Studying Abroad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... borrowed a car and drove me to the airport two hours later. I learned how to ... finding out how to go places through MIT, email me. Here's your first hint

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  questions that were just really hard that I didn't know how to answer. I ... if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008