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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  library. Halfway down the aisle you get turned around and can’t find the way ... past. We can help. Have you slept? Good luck. EC Gothic Nchinda N. '17 ... you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a negative reflection on you that you can't always be running at 100%. Some ... first semester of college and can't figure out why you keep forgetting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school ... someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE OUR WIFI, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE OUR FREEDOM!!" Entire monitors from Athena

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the ... them can be overcome if you put in a little bit of effort. Despite all

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... only tell them I’m from Denver, and if they ask “where are you really ... street who randomly yell things like “where are *you* from?” or “are you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben ... !) Like for example, you're surprisingly resourceful! And you can meet ... eventually. I have the worst time letting go of things, but you can't force

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

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

  

  overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor ... these lessons can be guideposts that allow you to learn, enjoy yourself

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you ... right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions

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

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

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... getting divorced, your house burning down, your girlfriend cheating on you ... having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are ... , but you know what they mean. It can’t be taught, but it can be lost ... .   Hey little bro. I wrote this in hopes that you can learn from some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... Hall. These certainly don't sum up the whole city, but they can give you ... with strangers in the street. Really, I think that you get a similar mix

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... . Continuing can be active; continuing is about the linkage between past-you and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I ... you face a very big decision: where to go to college. Choosing between ... returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  architecture to media/journalism.  But of course, you can’t possibly always know ... -of-comfort-zone moments that can uncover new things you love and value. Practically speaking ... like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want ... big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... shows you where the decision wasn't. It shows you the shape of our ... Jurassic Park was a work of fiction, and just like you can't reanimate a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be truly unlimited in your pursuit of knowledge, and nowhere else can you ... the course is to get away from fully actuated systems, where every

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018