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  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he ... spectacular: Good times. Now, to the content: there were seven lectures

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... ."]twitter[/annotation] this is just gonna be my go-to place when my followers on tumblr get ... to go anywhere else. i know its bad to have your heart set on one

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to ... ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  of your comfort zone, so take opportunities to try new things. Finding ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... ’ll never get anywhere. Just accept that you’re going to be in many pictures

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  dedicated course to Electrochemistry exists today; based on the content, it ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  . Calculating safety tolerances on your wooden rollercoaster to industrial ... would definitely use this feature to blog lgbtq+ content.   We ... that queer content has never been featured on the blogs; it frequently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  sent to several sororities, telling them about a new contest that ... requests around now...that means new servers to overload ... improvements to this area. Check back soon to nominate your school

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... bursts open due to its contents exceeding the capacity of its central pit ... developed a layer of muscle. This allows them to compact their inner contents

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  your work on XYZ,” I didn’t get immediate responses (and after pinging ... blurb on why you want to go to grad school (and/or your personal statement ... him there getting all excited every time I’d get to a new practice

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... every excuse to keep working on them. Ok, now that you have sharpened your ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... realize you're standing on thin air. This leads me to my other, ancillary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... certainly couldn't allow myself to get my hopes up, or my poor psyche would be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  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