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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  if you weren't here. Be happy that you're here. Be happy that you ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  hadn’t seen in ages. It’s an interesting combination; the beginning and ... "]they[/annotation] decide that you don’t care about the class, and mark your final grade as an ... . Even this isn’t the end of the world, since it’s not quite an F, it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  attentive yet flexible elderly care facility. When I was 18, I don't think I ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for entering MIT. Don't worry, I'll wait.) And three, because I'm about to be

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  friends who weren't afraid to spout Maxwell's equations in regular ... just a few months or years older than me. I wasn't convinced I was a ... for everyone, but in the end you can't imagine yourself anywhere else

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... section. I didn't have much hope for my cause, as it was explicitly stated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here ... guess my response wasn't very helpful to them. But hopefully it will ... things that spell-check doesn't catch, like when you spell "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... . But to say I wouldn't have been happy somewhere else is unreasonable and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... 1950s due to public criticism. Although I don't have any good sources ... that it can't have been more than one-fifth of the US. Newsstands stopped

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from Pennsylvania. I realized it wouldn’t be any different if I went to school there, and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  was fine, but then yesterday it died. It wasn't romantic. We were sad ... computer was an IBM Thinkpad T27 and my second computer was an IBM ThinkPad R ... ’ve dropped them from standing height. Once, I dropped the T27 onto a hardwood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that ... 's true. That said, it doesn't sound very helpful, or even convincing, but I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... who get in vs. the ones who don't ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  saying how they couldn't accept so many wonderful people. While it ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever ... probably don't say to your face for fear of inflating your ego: that you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can’t ... [annotation note='a process that is still ongoing, and won’t be over until april ... honest with you, things haven’t been all sunshine and roses. Maybe some of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in the audience. Then again, most class presentations don’t involve ... toilet on stage), the products don’t start out that way. The theme of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  . - HIM: "You know, that 7.20 test was hard! I hope the curve isn't too ... ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

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

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department ... procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from ... LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... realized that while these four years don't last very long, they are packed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... relaxed, they were happy, and they didn’t have bags under their eyes. There ... dancing until the AM hours. I didn’t see anyone studying. They were just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really ... answer, but i don’t want to believe in it. four Ang gulo, gulo Gusto ko? O ... , anything. all around me i tried to ignore the news, because i didn’t want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020