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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —Ifemelu’s only here for a few more days (246 more pages). Ameer One word. Dance. I ... secret gem. While Google will tell you this is the home of the local T

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  high-speed. CJ: To be fair, it was faster than the Green Line. Alan ... ? Alan: This…this character has a Wikipedia page: https ... . The page writes that Mick Jagger said he’s a fan of the bear! Woah. Hey

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  this mailing list? Because (*que suspense music*) … my advisor was a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  simple: melt down a block of bismuth, and pour out the liquid when it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  during committee, buy low-glycemic index snacks to avoid spikes and crashes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  posted this, because it really made me think. It's certainly a fair post ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the applicant pool; of course it's not fair that there are so few spots for so

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  poured into my classes, I still failed to grasp the concept. It was as ... up with extracurriculars, pouring yourself into too much of your work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  when you pour into it. It’s great to have that smaller support network

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... this particular poll are fairly East Campus centric (as evidenced by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and ... and slept through my lab section. This was a fairly substantial crisis

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  MEng) Google - YouTube and TV ads projects Medical doctor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... after the science fair, he decided it was actually possible.) Once again

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the paper (thanks Prod!), the only thing left is to review all the pages ... of the pages. Ethan's job is sign all pages he believes are ready. This generally takes several go-arounds per page.   4:02am: All the pages

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , it would begin raining and pouring. But it never did. I didn't have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  , until you pour your heart out and your best efforts and your sleep and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018