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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... when you have more work than you know how to handle – yet. When that ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 ... you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• 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 ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... borrowed a car and drove me to the airport two hours later. I learned how to

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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... would pay for SAT II exams, again. Even with fee waivers, applying to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the 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 / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the 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 / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... to regurgitate anything that you crammed for the test the night before ... lagging behind, you will quickly learn how to swim (don't worry, you just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... figured out how to successfully achieve multiple "food systems" goals

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at ... over four years ago, for example, he told me that he wanted to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ... to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... 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

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... 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

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat ... path for premeds here. If you choose to not follow that path, then you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019