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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... I was gonna get into MIT, but despite that uncertainty I was going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to ... prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... out my resume, I got contacted by a recruiter to set up two back-to ... , spread across the bed, and playing some Taylor Swift music, trying to get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

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

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  differently. If you learn best by going to every lecture, taking meticulous ... before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering ... still pretty psyched to get these. This is the moon: And lastly, the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was ... . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... as a “listener.” You can play a fun game by going to the subject

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... struggle to get better, the struggle to know myself, the struggle to chart

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... 't know the people there...I get distracted too easily by anyone I know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023