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  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 ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... . I chose to make high school quite difficult for myself. I took on more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans ... ’ve been rejected and your life is over. To make them happen, wherever you go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  : 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 ... : I want you to announce your presence - Me: Announce my p-wait, what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... passed out on the floor [and you're sprawled out amidst three notebooks and hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• 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 ... be exceptional—because if you’re accepted to MIT, you are exceptional ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

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

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

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60 ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I ... describing quite literally everything, depending on your personal philosophy

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  have nothing to do with your actual ability to do well on the test.” The ... caught on that there’s a little bit more to this picture (why would a ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each ... three years after writing that post, I had gone on to unlearn important

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... : Correct response, on your part: Woah, that girl looks so familiar! That ... snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011