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  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... decisions, let’s cover some procrastination tips, brought to you by Someone ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which ... and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing ... . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... same things as you. For me, this has included getting to play with ... -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... , back in London, my friends and I used to hide in trees and alarm passers-by by bursting into song; Davie said that he used to do the same. At 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

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

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

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  inclined to take any of his classes anymore. Brave New World by Aldous ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight to get to take classes at this level. He's really impressive. Great

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018