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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's in our best interest to do what we know needs to be done. Sometimes, by trying to make things better, you're making things worse. If we ask for ... 've been up to, enjoy our stories, but please don't make our lives more

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... building to make Facebook better, and I realized that, in an alternate ... . That we can't evade or avoid these decisions; we can only try to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... between you all that make it absolutely imperative that you are kind to one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran ... like them, but seek not to make them like you. Family and friends say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  decision makes sense since our community was already slated to be disrupted ... seemed like a natural step to us since, for one, it doesn't make sense for ... proposal makes sense since due to the social distancing constraints, with one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  ’s student government). After being selected by the committee, we each spoke to ... ’s policy-making process, creating projects to address student needs, and managing events to just help make students happy. The president and vice

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  of time worrying about his career and ability to make art, and wonders ... tools to make my vision a reality.  It wasn’t until this past January when ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one ... crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... start going senile, you have the opportunity to make yourself "smarter

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• 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 and I by heavy machinery and segfaults. (Although we try our best to ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011