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  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I’ve always been a procrastinator. I’ve procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking “I suppose I’ll try walking later,” to my second-grade phase of “Why…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions…

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight savings time. Okay, so it’s been like a month. I don’t know what happened, dawg. I don’t even have…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina ’10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest)…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I’ve been working on my grad school apps lately, when I’m not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college applications, including your…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot’s last name means “almond bread” in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday! It was for like 30 seconds, for a…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I’ll begin focusing on the…

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling ’07 and I went to the…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I’ve been on an extended vacation…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers saying how they couldn’t accept so many…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT’s motto is “Mens et manus”, which is Latin for “Mind and hand”. Now, in most cases, a school motto isn’t particularly meaningful. It’s…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I’m not that amazing (and actually I’m not…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree… don’t tell me. I’ll be sad.) Since…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I’ve ever written. Therefore, even though…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I understand that people want answers and…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I’m in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I’d take a quick break to tell you a little…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004