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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  returners, “You may get addicted to going on leave.” He explains: the world ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the ... organizations dedicated to student wellbeing. The doors to the small conference

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class"]about ASEs[/annotation] and classes we want to take and the swim test. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 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 accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... exhausted by 10pm when the lab closed -- I could barely stay awake to hang ... its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of ... guarantees about if I’d be able to get it back. The choice between

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... to songs I didn’t even realize I knew and admiring the outfits. The ... if he’ll ever be able to write the way he did before. Finally, the film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... to gauge the different qualitative reactions from people to their test ... seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  stake by trying to make ends meet, all the habits I currently do have, and ... the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018