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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... . Or, around the time when applicants are notified of their acceptances ... that you could go to a less challenging school and have an easier time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  -person, to work on it. When your friends have full-time jobs and are thousands ... anyone to treat writing Hunt as a full-time job for it to be written."]full-time ... post, and four times fifty is two hundred."]post title

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  on a farm/retreat in Santa Cruz, and backpacking around Europe. Part ... I wanted some time where I wasn’t tied down in one place. So I packed ... let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... ’ve moved into the sun. But at the same time, the decision that I have coming ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... this job. I loved the blogs very much, because they not only allowed me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... of the MIT population has spent very little if any time around black ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Yeahhhh....." This happens all the time at MIT. III. Additionally ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... HP7; the last time it ran was in 2011. And it's the first ten-day I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  them, email them, and keep going. The method's inspired from my time as an [annotation note='I have talked about ESP lots of times; we are a ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... ), that PDF application gets seen by many, many eyes, from the time it gets

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... bucketloads of faith in tow. Time to begin your search! Resources to take ... freshman advisor: it’s this person’s job to help you. My advisor wrote a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  time to get through Question 1 Part A of an assignment, lost to the point ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... mood until I’m completely soured and stressed by bed time. Even though

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he ... . Pullling a Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or one of these guys, if you will ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... ']a different activity I’m part of[/annotation]when the email comes through ... many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay ... , you land that job, your project works and your research is published and ... as if you’re redefined every time you succeed, and that’s what drives

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... D) Computer programmer Hosting the Discovery show 'Time Warp;' co-directed the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... short time, and you'll appreciate having a time capsule to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 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.

  

  got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... . But that's okay, since that extra time would have been spent in class

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007