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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -mo. Moments like sitting on a boat next to a friend and staring out into the ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... "]about ASEs[/annotation] and classes we want to take and the swim test. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... backgrounds, and you can’t discredit yourself solely on a standardized test ... there’s nothing more you can do other than be yourself, be honest, and be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  people assumed that all of the 2x4s could just be taken and used for ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the ... , level on all axes, hammered flush with the ground frame, and screwed into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... year, and then there's fireworks immediately following on the river - did ... , and you're missing out on a key part of the MIT experience if you never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... :   Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  you got in, it’s because you can handle it, and because you’re the kind ... :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  christened together, and the '93 Dormitory would henceforth be known as ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... be older and you’ll say goodbye to the home you’ve worked so hard to ... ’ll forget about being assigned line-leader and accidentally going to the

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  would be on a given day in the year, but was more interested in coding the ... decision from MIT, and I hadn't made it. I am just replying on this old email ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over

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

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  upstairs in the houses and patios overlooking secret courtyards. Being here ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got

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

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... ) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto

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

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  templates: a "section front," used on homepage and landing pages, that ... search to quickly search all of the pages and/or filter them by type of ... section of the current (soon to be "old") apply section on MITadmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018