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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  T O N. Enter. The screen refreshed. This time with a letter. Again ... comforting me with a gentle breeze, it simply sat with hands on my neck looking over my shoulder at the computer screen. The sun was having a joyous time

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  through comparison with other forms of media. Introduction Why CMS? Overview Acknowledgments Searching for legitimacy Hunt history ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  with people he had just met after a brief conversation. As Kenneth grew ... her own research, her pastor and bishop shared their experiences with their fraternities and connected her with other Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  designed with a few quirks that made these puzzles especially challenging ... close.) The first puzzle we faced was an empty room with a colorful toy ... remembered that we were standing in a wooden box with no electronics inside, so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... read it along with all my classmates’ posts on our class blog here. This ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in ... other planets or moons, or helping a lander safely rendezvous with an ... meaningful experience with academic research. Two years ago, I had just decided

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in ... out with). Nevertheless, sometimes the bursts result in two non ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  % would be dominated by perfectly genetically engineered humans with ... of shenanigans with my friends. Fortunately, summer and my 9-5 work ... of time thinking about my own relationship with fantasy, and how that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... , and hypothesizing where you'll live and who you'll hang out with. (We

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  classes but only 8 2020s responded to my survey and all with different ... . For the rest, I included the class/classes with the highest frequency ... ends with a final playsentation something very unique to any other class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  winner on his knees, begging you to UROP with him. "I'll even give you my ... ) resource: I made an appointment with them to go over my first draft, and ... little faith. No one is expecting you to waltz onto campus with years of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  grade were searching for schools with great reputations for a specific ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’re familiar with common notions that men are spatial and logical thinkers, while ... something to do with the separation of labor of our hunter ... described themselves with either the male- or female-associated traits, they

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

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

  

  slow bridge loops with Mika B. ‘14 and David D. SM ‘08, and I spent it eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the ... Residence Exploration period, starting with those you might not have already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all ... —as contrasted with the subject matter of that experience. It is clear that no

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  with any underlying meaning, and merely end up with a contrived essay ... the point. If they can’t talk or write about their experiences with some ... up with a Latin phrase that I heard several months ago that has really

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011