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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  two weeks, and hope that you get your passport in the mail on time ... homeless in a new country.  When you get your ETH email, forward your ... -Mobile. Finally, meet with the house responsible and check in to your new room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  on Wednesday evenings, where people work on tasks that need to be done ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  content is so popular to get mainstream film adaptations. These three arcs ... ="Assuming you're not putting anything weird on your website. If you read my 2021 ... watching a movie next to your friends and commenting on scenes as they come

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

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

  

  to the left[/caption] CJ: It’s 1011 and we get on the Orange Line ... ’t sure whether or not to stay on or get off. Our plan said we needed to run ... that Charlie gets stuck on the MTA because he didn’t have enough money to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... orient myself to a new reality. I probably needed a break from lifting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical engineering is like focusing your volunteer search on charities, and I had no ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... +. If you go to your professor's office hours, which they'll post on the class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on ... about submitting a Monopoly board based on your team. Andy made an ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... to some other large open clearing, but he did. He turned the drone on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... class ring. Many of my friends carry $10 and $20 daily, while I get $5 on

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... ) Get your 7 hours of sleep. You're not going to get more done in that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  on David and Alex to make sure the paper gets written and finished ... [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to ... the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... along the lines of: “Ceri, you’re going to have to revise your college

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

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on ... lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  , and the event was the catalyst to get the motion on the floor. After ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021