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• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . But I also don't mind the idea of going back to visit. I might even be ... universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... + years and I still don't know how much I've figured out. I don't really

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  alumni, and even folks who aren't affiliated with MIT but who have had a ... MIT students end up creating a change, even if that wasn't what the ... .   It was October 29th, 2012. My research wasn’t going too great and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn’t ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn’t

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don’t ... to make food. Which is why I’m really really glad that MIT doesn’t make ... -busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  group that doesn’t seem to want to have anything to do with the decision ... across the board: It’s been tried, it doesn’t work, students don’t vote ... city with this country’s first and most well-known university, I can’t

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  preparation. This beaver isn’t messing around! And then there’s the costume ... didn’t know that Tim comes with his own personal cooling system. Step 1 ... . You don’t realize how big Tim’s head is until you really take a good

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn’t ... major on my floor, and the only sophomore in my department. I don’t take classes alongside similarly involved people, and thus don’t often get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  MIT Engineers t shirt with a witty-nerdy saying on the back ... shorts are your friends. And wait till you discover the wonders of free t ... minor purchases. Don’t drag a mound of erasers and rulers on a plane, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  process. Okay this isn't too bad. Right Anastassia? Sure, I guess it's bearable. Aren't you all about becoming more evolutionarily fit anyway? Yep, I do always say that. Isn't that why you always try do physically

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don't ... getting things done (it didn't get finished until the middle of the review...). Sometimes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm worried about 2.009. Yet

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  ,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT (at least, not yet). That's not to say that the pace of learning isn't ... didn't send me a reminder every half hour before class, I'm pretty sure I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  . If you don't want to take my word for it, comment with your must ... outside my office).   2. I don't think I can handle the curriculum at MIT. Don't let imposter syndome win! We accepted you because we know

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  commitment of hosting a prefrosh, so don't feel like you are a burden. However, you shouldn't plan on glomming onto your host—remember that campus is ... .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  literally dozens of questions, all stacked together. There isn't necessarily ... seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn't ... B+, but a C+. My teacher hadn't properly input my final exam score

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and ... for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the ... Ring Theory, at their website. Isn't technology cool? That's the kind of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... can't help missing class because you're sleeping off that massive sugar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation ... the most overthought components of an application, so please don't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  mentioned in the posts above: don't panic, dream big, explore the internet, don't obsess, solve some puzzles, look at cute cats, thank people, and ... questions, probably best not to ask them here, as I probably won't be able to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your ... meet or the insight you could gain by checking things out, so don’t ... . Do, however, take everything with a grain of salt. Also, don’t be

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013