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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get ... match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  from when I've last seen her. "Talk to your grandma as much as you can while you're here, okay?" I can read between lines to understand what my ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you’re

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... primary bottleneck with build because it requires a lot of hands to get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... , whatever. I’m gonna get back to work.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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