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  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  , experts say, is making accurate, realistic assessments of your performance ... , but your fellow students and brilliant faculty are there to provide some ... . Keep your head out of the clouds - but don't be afraid to hold it high.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at ... started to trust my own judgment while making decisions on the Trail. Mom ... makes me happy* with the people I like**, when and how I want to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they ... " answers, rather one attempt at sorting. As long as you've done your best to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  can exploit to make higher and higher temperature superconductors. At ... battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... your creativity, but you're wrong. If you guessed internship, you're

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  run, there's still time to change the road you're on and it makes me ... , which said, "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so ... making it hard to say goodbye, and for that I am extremely grateful. Here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  pieces at friends is all it takes to make a terrible week a million times ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  hundreds of unique solutions to the game that'll make a team think "man, I ... group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... to splash those walking besides me). I’m not quite sure how guys do it ... drainage. Very large puddles next to very large mud pits are common

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I ... minute alto shrill was enough to make any blueshound's week. We spouted ... stars with his lines, mostly slowly, sometimes picking up momentum to make

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  about professors you're close to is that they make you call them by their ... didn't make an appointment to meet with Carlos, I just waltzed up to his ... People often seem to think that going to an elite school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  more gay than West Campus. So Queer West came about to Make West Campus ... with G@MIT! FOOD!!! Also gayyyyyy! Knit Your Own Pride Gear Come make ... have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  the issue with this bit of logic: "I was going to tell you to make the ... but have had no one to go with you. Come join your fellow chocolatiers ... How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  trafficked, but wouldn't it make more sense to have the chainsaw in building 46 ... heard a barely audible groan from right over your left shoulder? Students ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  words to make them feel better. When I tell someone “I’m a writer,” I ... communicating a feeling to the observer. When your words on the page—nothing more ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  's concerts. This is very handy to make sure we avoid conflicts, and also very ... ;3 if you're reading this) It is also very fulfilling to be able to ... , hosted all the bloggers who could make it to dinner at his apartment. It

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post ... If I had to explain what Junior year's been like so far.... I'd say ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  life that you can basically do whatever you want, and I wanted to make ... it because you want to. And, have fun while you're doing it ... the humanities here at MIT? Do you want to be profiled here? Does your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for ... students and our own admissions criteria to ensure we make good decisions for ... to COVID-19. As stated in our Making Caring Common pledge — and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , painting a galaxy mural, and rearranging furniture to make the room more spacious. i then set up a ton of LED lights and pictures to make it feel more ... makes a huge difference. finding how to sustain myself while living in EC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005