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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores ... this: create an index by multiplying SAT score and GPA. Rank-order the ... ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you're ... like if the wind won't get you, the floods will. If your roof doesn't get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... semester, an exciting new resource called Interstellar was born! Interstellar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  character to your room. get SLAPped! ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... kindness. Help people. Contribute to your community. There were moments in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... protochess differs in the approach, though. The first step to writing your own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school ... air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  new requirement by this catalog is interviews. Applicants near enough to ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... numbers. The alumni directory of this catalog refers to the courses by their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know you're going to get a shot. —Robo-CJ another Disney live action reboot ... spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you ... movements are inspired by different martial arts styles. In addition to that ... took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... was getting chipped away at, bit by bit. Here is an excerpt from ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... doing. So here’s to the new year and all the opportunity it brings - new

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  ”; and, most of all, Reif: “Keep your mind open to new possibilities, and ... lie when your lies are 8.25 by 11.75 inches. Jack Johnson plays in the ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011