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

  

  doesn't mean you're below average or struggling, it means that MIT has ... them and adding unnecessary stress to an already super-stressed MIT ... watching their children. 1) Parents are CONVINCED that unless they call you

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  freak out more, and rinse/repeat ad nauseam. The symptoms still feel ... . The day had been fairly normal so far, if unfocused: my Google Calendar ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• 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

  

  as the semesters pass. Try not to end up with many more than 1 or 2 if ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... , the ones you live with are probably all great, but there might be days

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... ones which consistently rank MIT undergrad as #1. My standard line at CPW ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• 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.

  

  problems. Of course, this schedule meant that I slept until noon every day and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... assignment the next day. When the tests rolled around, I would attend the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  . Take a class in at least 10 different departments - 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 ... happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all-nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... extracurriculars I didn't show up to that day, or even, sort of, why I thought I ... consolation or a celebration as needed. I thought all these plans would be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... server, and if it matches the 5–7–5 pattern of a haiku, it reposts the ... , some people just started writing everything in haiku: Since adding

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... , whether it’s day or night. When it’s rush hour, I work my gaze between the ... height is roughly 5’-7”. To this day, the marks are still there, repainted

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  the Target in Cambridge (accessible by T, or that one-day bus trip) or ... need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or ... , which is a lot more efficient. But here are things you SHOULD bring: 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... ’ve stayed more or less quiet about the other academic struggles I’ve faced ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Achievement Tests in: 1. Level I or Level II Mathematics, 2. Physics or ... -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... swing. [carousel image1="79528" image2="79494" image3="79492" image4

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  'll overseason a meal otherwise. i'd start with about 1 teaspoon per spice added ... specific lengths, or make a cube with slightly different inputs, but the idea ... 't always have every ingredient they list in their recipe. Or even half of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  day whether you got the scholarship or not. After my interview I ... mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping ... , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite ... mist, where the whole day there'd be this moisture in the air, not quite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  ://open.spotify.com/track/6ahkarUBu403hI6TT4ZM2O?si=972d2e7b1c854d64 ... of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible classes: Math: [annotation note="Calculus 1 (5 on AP Calc AB/BC equivalent

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... . Or perhaps it's passed and now you're having a rough time dealing with a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60 ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... fatigue or pandemic-fueled apathy, but maybe it was also because people just

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  . Together with photographer PJ I’m covering Residence EXploration, a multiple-day ... like you get at a barbershop (or the hangman). The whole thing took one ... ); the west mans an art sculpture beneath building 1 (Darwin). Battle cries

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... 's okay, you have a 50/50 chance. It's either a yes or a no." Oversimplified ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021