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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no ... me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... you like hurricane that sucked up a palm tree (get it? DATES?! eh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  some kind of bird. (What a shame; it was just getting used to swimming ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... the anger and loneliness and sadness, to get to a place where I could ... gratitude. Rinse, repeat. It took me a year to get to this point, which is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... 'm sorry it took me so long to get a first post out; I was waiting until

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... pleasantly surprised by the openness of a lot of students to make a change in ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply. Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

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

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston. That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Also, Next Haunt was a horror escape room, so we’d get jump-scared by ... it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024