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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I turn my audio on to say something, a red exclamation point pops up and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

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

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a

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

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... impact on the campus community. If an applicant has to create their own

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves ... out early to get to my 2.30 pm class on time. Location: Building 24 2 ... we eat dinner together on Slugfest, before splitting up again to go get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  point, and these organizations began to evaluate their own on ... for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... , to dealing with bad authority—both the principal and the new ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... name and number painted on their chests. They'll fill your entire room ... REALLY important to your MIT experience. Don't stress if you don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you’re

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  always count on the fire hose to spray those out with constant velocity ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  ="NASA pls hire me to do experiments on your astronauts"]16.423/HST.515/IDS.337 ... you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... graduates. Also on an unlabeled CD, there was this folder called “to tim” with ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014