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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• 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…

  

  . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... , there's no points or whatever people have left over at the semester (it ... -semester freshmen have the advantage of Pass/No-Record - which basically means that

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

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

  

  point that it's no longer your work - or, even worse, your voice. So

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends ... past, where people of any or no faith can gather to talk about the big

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... amputated penis has been partially eaten by a duck"  In no particular order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ...I have no idea what that is. Oddly, as soon as I typed this, my sister ... (paraphrased): .....no. MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the ... story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this ... minds: OH MY GOD AHHHH ADMISSIONS DECISIONS?! Well, no, not yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  beeti?” Is there water in Muti? He simply responded, “Aalle.” No, there is ... college. I had to explain simply, since my Amharic and Kafa No’No aren’t too ... responded, no, I told them, I came here to fix Muti’s water problem. There was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  social center of student life. No need is more urgently felt amongst the ... -located housing, students would end up interacting, an activity which would no ... the pages of The Tech: the op-ed wrote of how men “that have no control

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  with us! No artistic skill needed! 20:17 - 21:17 Billiards Pool is ... you attend this event? Come find out! No time travel experience ... the process. No experience necessary, everyone is welcome—just BYO

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset ... graduates: Congratulations. And if you’re in a spot like I was—no job and full ... to Andorra. Advice to prefrosh: No matter what the upperclassmen say

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer ... knob and your body is pressed against yet another door. There is no knob ... have no mouth but you must scream for ice cream Jake I. ‘16 It is the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the ... our classes are on pass/no record (pnr) freshman fall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025