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  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... explore in college. Topics, groups, events… You need to explore, but once

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... to do in order to pull hacks are illegal and fairly dangerous. MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  ability to make future decisions, either as well or, as in my case last ... 's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... begin reading applications or serving in committee, my ability to make

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

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... applied to when I did well in science competitions to tell them that I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... that it'll take me a lot more than one blog post to rant about all of its

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... , in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add ... us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... the “dirty” dirt to the “clean” dirt--sediment found in water at this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... manipulate the process in order to gain admission. In case this distinction is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011