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• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ’t be boring.  I’m overwhelmed and realizing the stress is getting to me ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... -year-old stop crying by sitting her on my lap and reading to her. Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• 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 ... ranked, and by the time he was accepted, he had been to Junior Olympics ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... home. You know everybody by name and are always trying to uplift people ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... want to get there by [annotation note="i like to be a little on the ... on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  . It was surprisingly difficult, however, to collect my data from Google ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... more than I knew. In time, I started to feel alienated by the corporate ... changed by one assignment, and that I wanted to do research on spacecraft

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular ... development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... 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

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... websites over the years, some catering to niche interests and others more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  content is so popular to get mainstream film adaptations. These three arcs ... 's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... screening, but by then, it's too late to make large changes. Caves calls this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• 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 ... the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an ... commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... like: what's the nicest way to get the names of the winning team? My ... tiny blip in satisfaction to write those four lines. Now multiply that by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019