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  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This Tech article came out hot on the heels of Lydia's blog post, Meltdown. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  things he said and the way he downplayed a lot of issues with a sinking sense of horror. Take, for instance, the way he responds to the question ... he's found himself a very good support staff. Who knows where all of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... of thing. Have a good day. Be happy. ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  secretly snuffles around on the floor for food the same way Dog 4 does, and ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I ... yesterday; we ran out of bedding. Everyone on screen pauses, moves one or two

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now ... . Please, be careful with that. Sending a lot of love your way, Ana (Paola

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  based on its known coordinates. It wasn't much of a program, but while ... . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... better. I was good in computers, and I actually liked working on it, so it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  on game because I was having fun! I spent time outside of game looking ... on top of a poster, wherever. The strip says something like "Challenge ... , which was on the high end of the HP stat distribution. I started with two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... reasonably conclude that women score lower on certain types of tests as a ... brought on this result. The question of interest, then, becomes “which

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  : The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... , and made quite a bit of extra cash on the side. A few years into

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  was making them. It was kind of like I was “trying on” all these ... these kinds of problems on a larger, more grandiose scale that could lead ... way. The common existence of hierarchies across every world society

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and ... prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... -email of good wishes. Consider this so. :-) Davie" The following evening, a

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

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of ... score of 4.8 on them, and I have a 4.5 weighted GPA despite doing 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... November 1st, amidst all the chaos and uncertainty of life, I have a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... topics. 15. LOOK AT THE POSTERS ON THE WALLS OF EVERY CORRIDOR. N: I didn ... ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... in real life. In some ways, the concept of "hookup culture" was like ... relationships”: a non-exclusive relationship based on multiple interactions of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018