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  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  : The Spanish Incubator (2) 2022 11.011: The Art and Science of ... ; Top HASS Classes 11.011: The Art and Science of Negotiation  (5) 21 ... science. Challenging but I learned a lot of cool things and the professor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  without visiting another college or university.  One of Nikayah ... political science, education, biology, and so much more. One of Audrey ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... Dark Materials and the residents of our universe know these particles as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... university are basically the same as the frontiers of human concerns, whether

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• 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…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  table than a slate of straight As in math and science and a big SAT I Math ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• 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 ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won ... my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have learned to accept in my own life of applying for grad school and ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... worth, since you likely qualified just by applying. You are a part of the ... senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... Boston's Museum of Science, which has a great view of the city skyline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007