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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  attacks, unable to move for hours lying on the floor. Some are still ... unfortunate has happened to them, and they just need to be cared for a little ... health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• 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.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and ... work for 21F.701 (Spanish I), even though that really amounted to maybe

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  'll hold the rest for the second edition of The Unofficial Guide to ... 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 / Featured Blogs

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

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... was applying to college, the single most important thing was for me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for ... WORTHY!" (honestly, it's hard for me to keep those feelings in check

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... shape wide-reaching policy and to advocate for undergraduates was a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... lecture (more than once (for an entire semester)) b) I decided not to do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over ... have started making masks for themselves, but some have started to evolve ... Pockets end up burrowing into the ground to set up traps for other critters

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• 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 ... face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for ... regardless of the outcome, none of that goes to waste. We are all better for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011