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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... . If you have time for only one Yultide post, stop reading this and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

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

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... -2025, MIT minimum wage for students is $16.00/hr. Unless otherwise specified ... UROP for their undergraduate research and I feel so unspecial

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school ... would ask for volunteers for the improvised solo section. For reasons that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... is typically not what we are going for when selecting students for our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students ... consistency, so that similar decisions are made for similar applicants from the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... 50 revisions" means. I know I spent some time using the agenda for its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, McGregor has mostly singles, so its actual cost for an average freshman is higher ... experience that may or may not suit your nutritional needs. For me, having a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... between yoga and powerlifting. For me, [annotation note="But not injurious ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... hours dedicated to grinding out reports for this course, I have finally

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC ... for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021