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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... application pieces and statistics for each one, I immediately felt underprepared ... vs. Yale nor application acceptance rates for any school. (Again, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ! When I signed off the call I burst into tears for about 20 seconds, not ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for baby students. It's why MIT so graciously gives us P/NR. A lot of ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... college? They are so incredibly useful! My dorm uses them for potluck

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  year has been really difficult for us; that’s why I’m being, well, like ... plant vase before Dad left for the U.S. She asked what you felt. At the ... Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  . Afterwards, eight or so of us went for coffee. I wrote down a list of my ... smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  Previously: Boomeranging. Content warnings for detailed discussion ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  complete 4 design exercises, which are mini-projects that help prepare us for ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time ... .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005