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  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 ... you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  can drop by anytime the next day or later to get their work. This was my ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... healthy dose of Acceptance to wash down your Rejection ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to ... finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of new exciting happenings at MIT that I would have loved to join but ... amazing new friends! Thanks to CME, I also realize the different aspects of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... 1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... , to dealing with bad authority—both the principal and the new ... motivation that propelled me to succeed academically was to get out of Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... Cream to This (Death by Exercise) || VEDA #19 – focus groups, dancing, AXO ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  started by blogger Danny B.D.!) that lets you lay out your class schedule ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... ’s adorable. And your enthusiasm is great. P.S. - I wanted to clarify that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... to your classes, you're preventing yourself from doing so as well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007