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• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... out about how you could publish poems and submit to contests held by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... having not seen each other in months. “Make it quick,” he remarked, as if ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I ... by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020 ... your resume is time-consuming. You have to make sure that literally every word makes you look as good to an employer as possible. You guys can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  something to save these memories – take pictures, make videos, save ticket ... 're going to make mistakes. Forgive yourself and take responsibility for your actions instead of making excuses. Learn to sincerely apologize. 12) It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately ... individualistic, slightly different from the page that sat next to it. Some had ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I ... [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to ... . Ultimately, “Paint By Word” was rejected by that conference, which happened to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• 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 ... busy teaching me to not be fazed by anything. This is how experience works. You figure it out. You get by. You make up something reasonable and

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  . Then, I go home, sit at my desk, and handwrite four to six pages. Every ... . Then I go to sleep. It makes me feel better.  It isn’t all sad things ... decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  happiness doesn’t actually depend on going to that school. Make sure you have ... very quickly—it’s what enables a lot of innovation to happen, but as a ... . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  maintain for. When people talk about happiness they quickly go to big ... , listen to music. Make sure it’s music without lyrics so that it isn ... instead of bad weeks, I noticed that I had to make an effort to check myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] click to enlarge[/caption] To make this plot, I used a ... 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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... enjoyed. I was even convinced to take 6.832 by another person in my lab, and ... last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  quickly fell to the wayside when I realized the department of aeronautics ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill" their victim by finding them spoonless off the floor and tagging them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  that the only way to make it through here is by working with and ... .[/annotation] We make a quick pit stop at MIT as part of a field trip, and I remember ... . And I quickly grew so excited about the chance to come to MIT. To write

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... up each day. Unplanned, indefinite, opening books to read a random page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  quick to amusedly say, “Oh that’s ok! If we make strips out of the brim ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012