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  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  Simmons hall. I’ve even seen some painted as murals on dorm hallways. But ... punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be?” “What would ... event at Harvard’s Brattle Theatre. This was announced last spring, and I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow ... I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it ... understand when I say “Hi I’m [Debbie], my major is [undecided, but

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon as the solstice came around"]summer!!![/annotation]Here's what I'm up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... immediately (I’ll attempt to help with this soon). The worst essays are surely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... that I've been taking through the Student Art Association has rekindled

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up ... -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... . So, I'm often asked, what do you do when you're not reading ... professional conferences. As you've read, Ben and I have done a couple already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... Mass Tech made my list. I actually hadn’t even thought about applying to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  Stata Center for lunch. 3:32 PM: Checks email and surfs the Web (I ... So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... days are rougher than others, and more often than not I find myself ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  What I've noticed is that being an Admissions Blogger has turned me into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems up tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006